After updating my system to glibc-2.4 (and gcc-4.1.0) and rebuilding world, I can no longer run certain java programs with either sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06-r2 or blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-r2. Here's an example from attempting to run azureus-bin-2.4.0.0 under sun-jre-bin: Attempting to start Azureus... should load blocklist from: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/spconfig.txt java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) at java.lang.Thread.start(Unknown Source) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.clientmessageservice.impl.NonBlockingReadWriteService.<init>(NonBlockingReadWriteService.java:98) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.clientmessageservice.impl.AEClientService.<init>(AEClientService.java:73) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.clientmessageservice.impl.AEClientService.<init>(AEClientService.java:60) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.clientmessageservice.ClientMessageServiceClient.getServerService(ClientMessageServiceClient.java:44) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.versioncheck.VersionCheckClient.performVersionCheck(VersionCheckClient.java:234) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.versioncheck.VersionCheckClient.getVersionCheckInfo(VersionCheckClient.java:101) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.versioncheck.VersionCheckClient.getExternalIpAddress(VersionCheckClient.java:136) at org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.utils.UtilitiesImpl.getPublicAddress(UtilitiesImpl.java:346) at com.aelitis.azureus.plugins.jpc.discovery.impl.JPCDiscoveryImpl.<init>(JPCDiscoveryImpl.java:76) at com.aelitis.azureus.plugins.jpc.discovery.JPCDiscoveryFactory.create(JPCDiscoveryFactory.java:44) at com.aelitis.azureus.plugins.jpc.cache.impl.JPCCacheManagerImpl$1.run(JPCCacheManagerImpl.java:63) at org.gudy.azureus2.pluginsimpl.local.utils.UtilitiesImpl$2.runSupport(UtilitiesImpl.java:247) at org.gudy.azureus2.core3.util.AEThread.run(AEThread.java:64) DEBUG::Wed Mar 15 21:21:58 GMT 2006::com.aelitis.azureus.core.instancemanager.impl.AZInstanceManagerImpl::log::217: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) at java.lang.Thread.start(Unknown Source) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.impl.MCGroupImpl.processNetworkInterfaces(MCGroupImpl.java:289) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.impl.MCGroupImpl.<init>(MCGroupImpl.java:125) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.impl.MCGroupImpl.getSingleton(MCGroupImpl.java:76) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.MCGroupFactory.getSingleton(MCGroupFactory.java:40) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.instancemanager.impl.AZInstanceManagerImpl.initialize(AZInstanceManagerImpl.java:143) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.impl.AzureusCoreImpl.start(AzureusCoreImpl.java:238) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer.run(Initializer.java:284) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread$1.runSupport(SWTThread.java:107) at org.gudy.azureus2.core3.util.AERunnable.run(AERunnable.java:38) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) DEBUG::Wed Mar 15 21:21:58 GMT 2006::com.aelitis.azureus.core.instancemanager.impl.AZInstanceManagerImpl::log::217: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) at java.lang.Thread.start(Unknown Source) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.impl.MCGroupImpl.processNetworkInterfaces(MCGroupImpl.java:319) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.impl.MCGroupImpl.<init>(MCGroupImpl.java:125) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.impl.MCGroupImpl.getSingleton(MCGroupImpl.java:76) at com.aelitis.net.udp.mc.MCGroupFactory.getSingleton(MCGroupFactory.java:40) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.instancemanager.impl.AZInstanceManagerImpl.initialize(AZInstanceManagerImpl.java:143) at com.aelitis.azureus.core.impl.AzureusCoreImpl.start(AzureusCoreImpl.java:238) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer.run(Initializer.java:284) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread$1.runSupport(SWTThread.java:107) at org.gudy.azureus2.core3.util.AERunnable.run(AERunnable.java:38) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) This continues on with at least 8 or 9 similar errors. The UI never appears and the program has to be terminated. If required, I can post similar errors under blackdown-jdk with azureus-bin and limewirepro. Portage 2.1_pre6-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r0, 2.6.15-ck7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-ck7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1, 2.16.91.0.6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ffriend-injection" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dbus debug dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap lzw lzw-tiff mad memlimit mono mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xml xml2 xpm xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_vesa video_cards_nv" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
The only java program I have that runs, jdiskreport-bin-1.2.3, uses AWT. Azureus and Limewire Pro use SWT. I have swt-3.2_pre1 installed.
Does anyone in the java herd know anything about this? Is this something that will go away when the java freeze is over and the new swt enters portage?
Whatever issue was causing this problem is long fixed.