Re: Problems installing JDK 1.5

Juergen Nickelsen wrote:
On Feb 27 2007, Chris Timmons wrote:

Don't forget that the linux JDK will want you to have linprocfs mounted. I recently had a similar build experience of jdk-1.5.0p4 which cleared up fine after I remembered about linprocfs.

linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

Hm. I cannot imagine how this could lead to the problems I saw, but another thing to try. Thanks!

Linux systems store tons of need-to-know data in the /proc file system. If you've ever installed a chrooted Linux environment you must 'mount -o bind' the /proc file system from the running system to the chroot for many OS functions to work correctly.

I suspect that Java was looking for some process information in linprocfs and since it wasn't mounted, it blew up. :) Hope this clears up the "why" question. :)

Sam Baskinger
Lumeta - Securing the Network in the Face of Change
www.lumeta.com
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