How to resolve Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: strm

Question

Hi,
Aplogies, if I am posting this in the wrong place, else please guide me.
We were running JBoss server 4.2.3 GA with Java 5 Update 19 in Solaris 10.
Details of uname command in Solaris box is,
uname -a
SunOS uktapp06 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M
Due to performance issues we need to upgrade to latest Java [Java 6 Update 21] and when I tried to run JBoss with 64 bit mode using Java options like,
JAVA_OPTS="*-d64* -Xms3g -Xmx3g -XX:ThreadStackSize=512 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewRatio=2"
I get the below error,
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: strm
        at java.util.zip.Inflater.initIDs(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.Inflater.<clinit>(Inflater.java:68)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.getInflater(ZipFile.java:266)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.getInputStream(ZipFile.java:212)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.getInputStream(ZipFile.java:180)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.hasClassPathAttribute(JarFile.java:465)
        at java.util.jar.JavaUtilJarAccessImpl.jarFileHasClassPathAttribute(JavaUtilJarAccessImpl.java:21)
        at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getClassPath(URLClassPath.java:903)
        at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:302)
        at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:168)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)I have posted this at JBoss Forum here, http://community.jboss.org/message/553489
and got a response that we need to reinstall Java 6 Update 21 in Solaris
However my System admin verified and said there are no issues in Java installation.
I could run a HelloWorld sample program using the same Java options [with -d64 flag] and that runs perfectly.
I do not have any clue because I do not think there is any issues in the JBoss server
From the above trace, it is failing at a native call and not picking up the required libraries.
Please also let me know the below
1. Whether I need to set any environment variables?
2. Whether the installation would have been corrupted and we need to reinstall?
Thanks,
Prabhu

Answer 1

Hi Franco,
Yes, I solved that by reinstalling Java 6 Update 21.
There are three versions for Solaris namely, SPARC, x64 and x86. Our platform is SPARC and I think System admin has installed the wrong version instead of installing SPARC version of Java.
After installing SPARC version of Java this got resolved. And I confirmed everything is fine by running a small program as below. You can run this program from command line using the -d64 flag. If the installation is wrong you will get the same exception as I mentioned.
public class Analyzer {
      public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
           InputStream fin = new FileInputStream(args[0]);
           int iSize = fin.available();
           byte mvIn[] = new byte[iSize];
           fin.read(mvIn,0,iSize);
           fin.close();
           String strText = new String(mvIn);
           PrintStream fout = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(args[0]+".csv"));
           fout.println("Before,After,Seconds");
           Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\[(?:Full |)GC (\\d*)K->(\\d*)K\\(\\d*K\\), ([\\d.]*) secs\\]");
           Matcher m = p.matcher(strText);
           while(m.find()){
                fout.println(m.group(1)+ "," + m.group(2) + "," + m.group(3));
           fout.close();
}Hope this helps.
Regards,
Prabhu