Java -version error when trying to do an upgrade

Question

Hi gurus
i am having this problem with my java on SUSE 9.1
java -version
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load native library: /usr/lib/SunJava2-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
which java
/usr/lib/java/jre/bin/java
my java installation is in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_09  and i have defined this in .bashrc for my sidadm as i need to do an upgrade
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_09/bin/java
export PATH=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_09/bin:$PATH
export CLASSPATH=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_09/lib
Any ideas will be welcome

Answer 1

i downloaded j2sdk1.4.2_09 and then uzippped it in
/usr/java then edited the paths in .bashrc sidadm
home directory.
yes - but you´re logged on as root?
I suggest, putting it on a different path instead of the SuSE  provided path, you will have trouble upgrading later SuSE packages if you overwrite the installed packages.
I do it the following way:
- cd /opt
- j2sdk....*.sh
- ln -s /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_09 java1.4
- (as root)
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java1.4
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Then start installation.
The advantage of using a softlink is the fact, that you don´t need to change anything later if you upgrade your JDK, just re-point the softlink.
Markus
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        Markus Döhr