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Bug 97210

Summary:	uninstaller fails in bundled jdk on RHAS4.0
Product:	installer	Reporter:	Jan Lana <jl149544>
Component:	JDK bundle	Assignee:	mslama <mslama>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	RELNOTE
Priority:	P2
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Output of 'sh -x uninstaller 2>log'

Description Jan Lana 2007-03-05 16:21:08 UTC

Bundle: jdk-6u1-nb-5_5
Tested build: mlfcs/200612070100_1
Locale: en, pt_BR

Uninstaller fails on RHAS4.0 with the bundled jdk (6u1). It just happen on RH,
Solaris and Windows version works well.

The uninstaller starts and after ~2sec prints 'Verifying JVM.' and finish.

I tried to run the uninstaller with another java version (jdk1.5.0_11) and it
works well.

Step to reproduce:
 - run ./jdk-6u1-nb-5_5-linux-ml.bin
 - export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/jdk1.6.0_01
 - cd netbeans-5.5/_uninstaller
 - run ./uninstaller

See the attached output of 'sh -x ./uninstaller 2>log'

Comment 1 Jan Lana 2007-03-05 16:27:05 UTC

Created attachment 39175 [details]
Output of 'sh -x uninstaller 2>log'

Comment 2 Jan Lana 2007-03-06 09:48:36 UTC

I tried
/home/tester/jdk1.6.0_01/bin/java -jar uninstall.jar
and it works. 

Interesting, because 
./uninstaller -is:javahome /home/tester/jdk1.6.0_01
fails.

Comment 3 mslama 2007-03-06 11:45:19 UTC

Problem is that bundle uninstaller ignores -is:javahome command line option.
Uninstaller of standalone NB IDE works fine. It is InstallShield problem. I do
not know if we will be able to patch uninstaller launcher.

Comment 4 mslama 2007-03-06 14:13:00 UTC

It is common issue not only for bundle uninstaller. On Linux/Solaris uinstaller
ignores command line option -is:javahome. Unfortunately we are not able to fix
this issue. Workaround is to run installer directly using 'java -jar
uninstall.jar' if uinstaller launcher fails to locate JDK.

Comment 5 mslama 2007-03-06 14:25:16 UTC

It is more complicated: Uninstaller launcher first tries to search JDK using
predefined rules. If it fails then it can use -is:javahome. Installer launcher
behaves differently. Anyway whole algorithm is complicated and is out of our
hands. It is InstallShield code. So workaround still applies: If uninstaller
launcher fails to locate JDK try -is:javahome. If even -is:javahome fails run
uninstaller directly with 'java -jar uninstall.jar'.

I even tried to set all uninstaller options in installer project for bundle
uninstaller launcher to the same values as for standalone IDE uninstaller
launcher but behavior did not change.

Comment 6 mslama 2007-09-17 14:39:13 UTC

We will have new installer for jdkbundle NB 6.0 + JDK X so this issue will be fixed in 6.0.