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Glassfish 3.0 latest promoted builds spinning forever trying to find JDK? (previously worked fine)

From: Mark Mielke <mark_at_mark.mielke.cc>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:59:17 -0400

Hi all:

I mainly use Glassfish 2.1. I try to keep a latest Glassfish 3.0
promoted build installed and ready to try out just to make sure it meets
my requirements.

For the last few promoted builds (since 63 or before?), the GUI install
process has been failing on my machine. It asks all the questions, but
when it gets to the "JDK Selection" page, the logo spins, and the Next
button is not highlighted. I cannot type or click any buttons. It just
keeps on spinning.

When running the installer (promoted build 66 right now), it says:

Using the user defined JAVA_HOME : /usr/java/jdk
Entering setup...
SwixML 1.5 (#144)


I have Fedora 11 / x86_64 with Sun JDK 1.6.0_16 installed in this directory:

$ pwd
/usr/java
$ ls -l
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 6 mark mark 4096 2009-08-26 23:50 apache-maven-2.2.1/
drwxr-xr-x. 9 mark mark 4096 2008-12-29 18:49 apache-tomcat-6.0.18/
drwxrwxr-x. 9 mark mark 4096 2008-08-14 19:18 docs/
drwxr-xr-x. 3 mark mark 4096 2009-10-04 18:31 download/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 15 2009-07-01 18:26 eclipse -> eclipse-galileo/
drwxr-xr-x 9 mark mark 4096 2009-10-04 17:13 eclipse-galileo/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 17 2009-08-08 14:37 eclipselink ->
eclipselink-1.1.2/
drwxr-xr-x 6 mark mark 4096 2009-06-12 02:44 eclipselink-1.1.2/
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mark mark 14 2009-06-09 22:44 glassfish -> glassfish-v2.1/
drwxr-xr-x. 15 mark mark 4096 2009-07-16 20:04 glassfish-v2.1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mark mark 4096 2009-10-04 18:44 glassfish-v3/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 19 2009-08-08 14:37 jboss-seam ->
jboss-seam-2.2.0.GA/
drwxr-xr-x 11 mark mark 4096 2009-08-08 14:36 jboss-seam-2.2.0.GA/
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mark mark 6 2009-06-09 22:45 jdk -> jdk1.6/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 11 2009-08-15 17:26 jdk1.6 -> jdk1.6.0_16/
drwxr-xr-x 10 mark mark 4096 2009-08-15 17:25 jdk1.6.0_16/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 9 2009-08-15 18:58 je -> je-3.3.87/
drwxr-xr-x 9 mark mark 4096 2009-08-08 17:25 je-3.3.87/
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mark mark 6 2009-06-09 22:45 jre -> jre1.6/
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mark mark 10 2009-06-09 22:45 jre1.6 -> jdk1.6/jre/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 18 2009-08-26 23:50 maven -> apache-maven-2.2.1/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark mark 14 2009-08-08 14:19 netbeans -> netbeans-6.7.1/
drwxr-xr-x 23 mark mark 4096 2009-08-08 14:13 netbeans-6.7.1/

Previous Glassfish promoted builds have worked in the past. It is only
the last two months or so that it has not been working. I waited to see
if it was isolated to one or two builds - but it seems like this is a
new trend and it should be address before Glassfish 3.0 is released.
What do you think?

What would you like me to try?

Cheers,
mark

-- 
Mark Mielke<mark_at_mielke.cc>