Re: kern/38865: eclipse+jdk16 cannot start on i386 and COMPAT_LINUX

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38865; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
Cc: Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38865: eclipse+jdk16 cannot start on i386 and COMPAT_LINUX
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:44:35 +0200

 On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:28:02PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > On Jun 13,  4:57pm, njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost (Nicolas Joly) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: kern/38865: eclipse+jdk16 cannot start on i386 and COMPAT_LIN
 > | 
 > | I just tested it on a -current i386 machine i have, and didn't noticed
 > | anything like that ... Only a small warning from the java binary.
 > | 
 > | njoly@hal [~/eclipse]> ./eclipse 
 > | Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack 
 > location - find_vma failed
 > | 
 > | Can you make the full trace available somewhere ?
 > 
 > That warning should go away if procfs is mounted with -o linux. And
 > it is going to make other things fail [like NULL pointer detection
 > in hotspot if it does not work].
 
 Gasp. That machine had the procfs entry in the fstab, but with noauto
 option ... Once mounted, the warning does indeed go away, and eclipse
 still works.
 
 Thanks.
 
 -- 
 Nicolas Joly
 
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