[rvm-research] Unable to produce working build of Jikes - Ubuntu Precise 32 bit

Hi all,
I have spent the better part of my day trying to get a working build of Jikes, and trying to search the internet for information that may guide me, but to no avail - so my apologies if this information is documented elsewhere.

I am trying to build Jikes so that I can evaluate whether my JVM taint tracking system [1] works with Jikes (I have since gotten it working with Hotspot 7/8, Icedtea 7/8, Kaffe 6 and Harmony 6). I am using a VM with Ubuntu “precise” 32 bit. I am able to get a successful build of Jikes 3.1.3, but then when I try to run it (the as built version, before I try to do anything with my taint tracking system), I get the message "Exception in thread “Jikes_RBoot_Thread”” and no further information (Jikes hangs). I have tried both the development and production builds. I am willing to try with a different version of a different distribution (or architecture - I first tried OS X 64 bit and then Ubuntu 64 bit but had significant issues building). Any pointers would be useful. I’ve also attached below the complete log that I get when setting verboseBoot to max.

Thanks in advance,
Jonathan Bell

[1] https://github.com/Programming-Systems-Lab/phosphor - to appear at OOPSLA 2014


> $ dist/development_ia32-linux/rvm -cp ../tests/bin/ -X:verboseBoot=1000 -X:verbose Foo
> JikesRVM: loading from "dist/development_ia32-linux/RVM.data.image"
> JikesRVM: loading from "dist/development_ia32-linux/RVM.code.image"
> JikesRVM: loading from "dist/development_ia32-linux/RVM.rmap.image"
> JikesRVM: boot record contents:
>    bootImageDataStart:   0x57000000
>    bootImageDataEnd:     0x590b4000
>    bootImageCodeStart:   0x5b000000
>    bootImageCodeEnd:     0x5c045000
>    bootImageRMapStart:   0x5e000000
>    bootImageRMapEnd:     0x5e056000
>    initialHeapSize:      0x03200000
>    maximumHeapSize:      0x06400000
>    tiRegister:           0x00000400
>    spRegister:           0x5904c058
>    ipRegister:           0x5c03e62c
>    tocRegister:          0x57080260
>    sysConsoleWriteCharIP:0x0804d2e4
>    ...etc...                   
> Booting
> Setting up current RVMThread
> Doing thread initialization
> Setting up memory manager: bootrecord = 0x5700000c
> Initializing baseline compiler options to defaults
> Fetching command-line arguments
> Early stage processing of command line
> Collector processing rest of boot options
> Initializing bootstrap class loader: dist/development_ia32-linux/jksvm.jar:dist/development_ia32-linux/rvmrt.jar
> Running various class initializers
> running class intializer for java.util.WeakHashMap
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/WeakHashMap; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for org.jikesrvm.classloader.Atom$InternedStrings
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lorg/jikesrvm/classloader/Atom$InternedStrings; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for gnu.classpath.SystemProperties
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lgnu/classpath/SystemProperties; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.Throwable$StaticData
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/Throwable$StaticData; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.Runtime
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/Runtime; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.System
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/System; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for sun.misc.Unsafe
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lsun/misc/Unsafe; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.Character
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/Character; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for org.jikesrvm.classloader.TypeReferenceVector
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lorg/jikesrvm/classloader/TypeReferenceVector; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for org.jikesrvm.classloader.MethodVector
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lorg/jikesrvm/classloader/MethodVector; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for org.jikesrvm.classloader.FieldVector
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lorg/jikesrvm/classloader/FieldVector; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.ThreadGroup
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/ThreadGroup; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.ThreadLocal
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/ThreadLocal; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.ThreadLocalMap
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/ThreadLocalMap; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.security.VMAccessController
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/security/VMAccessController; >.<clinit> ()V
> Booting Lock
> Booting scheduler
> Enabling GC
> Setting up boot thread
> Initializing JNI for boot thread
> JNI initialized for boot thread
> running class intializer for java.io.File
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/io/File; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.String
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/String; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for gnu.java.security.provider.DefaultPolicy
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lgnu/java/security/provider/DefaultPolicy; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.net.URL
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/net/URL; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.net.URLClassLoader
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/net/URLClassLoader; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.net.URLConnection
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/net/URLConnection; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for gnu.java.net.protocol.jar.Connection$JarFileCache
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Lgnu/java/net/protocol/jar/Connection$JarFileCache; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.ClassLoader$StaticData
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/ClassLoader$StaticData; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.lang.Class$StaticData
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/lang/Class$StaticData; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.nio.charset.Charset
> has no clinit method 
> running class intializer for java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.nio.charset.CoderResult
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/nio/charset/CoderResult; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.io.PrintWriter
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/io/PrintWriter; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.io.PrintStream
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/io/PrintStream; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.Locale
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/Locale; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.ResourceBundle
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/ResourceBundle; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.zip.CRC32
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/zip/CRC32; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.zip.Inflater
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/zip/Inflater; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.zip.DeflaterHuffman
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/zip/DeflaterHuffman; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.zip.InflaterDynHeader
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/zip/InflaterDynHeader; >.<clinit> ()V
> running class intializer for java.util.zip.InflaterHuffmanTree
> invoking method < BootstrapCL, Ljava/util/zip/InflaterHuffmanTree; >.<clinit> ()V
> Running late class initializers
> Exception in thread "Jikes_RBoot_Thread":


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