On Oct 20, 11:16am, avu@lanl.gov (Al Urbaitis) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: JRE and OpenOffice Part IV

| Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <4537D1D2.1040702@lanl.gov>, Al Urbaitis  <avu@lanl.gov> wrote:
| >> Open office writer (soffice)
| >> works ok when user is root. That is
| >> the java based "wizards" work as intended.
| >>
| >> However the "wizards" hang when launched as
| >> a local user with the following error messages
| >>
| >>
| >> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack 
| >> location -
| >>  find_vma failed
| 
| > 
| > put in /etc/fstab:
| > 
| > procfs          /proc           procfs  rw,linux                 0 0
| > 
| > and remount procfs
| > 
| > christos
| 
| Same as before...
| How can I tell if this is truly the case taht soffice/JRE query procfs ?
| My current fstab looks like
| 
| /dev/wd0a       /                ffs     rw              1 1
| /dev/wd0b       none             swap    sw              0 0
| /dev/wd0e       /usr             ffs     rw              1 2
| /dev/wd0f       /var             ffs     rw              1 2
| /dev/wd0g       /home            ffs     rw              1 2
| /dev/wd0b       /tmp             mfs     rw,-s=614880
| kernfs          /kern            kernfs  rw
| procfs          /proc            procfs  rw,linux        0 0
| /dev/cd0a       /cdrom           cd9660  ro,noauto       0 0
| hfnmr:/data     /data            nfs     rw,soft         0 0

You can ktrace the java process and then use kdump to see what it does.
BTW, jdk versions < 1.4.2 hard-coded the stack position so the procfs
fix will not work. In order for that jdk to work, you need to re-compile
the kernel with a different base address. In that case, you are better off
upgrading the jdk.

christos