I am having an issue with Fedora 8 64bit as well. I am however able to get GlassFish up and running but when I try to deploy an application the classloader complains about not being able to locate one of my servlets. The exact same codebase deploys fine on an earlier version of Fedora 32bit.
S.D.
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