Java 8 hangs (not 1.8.0_05 though)

[SupaHam]

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Java 8 hangs when typing java -version. I've tested this with a few installations.

I first tried the popular ppa:webupd8team/java:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

That installed successfully, but it hung when I typed java -version. Here's the strace results.

Then I went to check out if others were experiencing the same issue when I came across #49 specifically this post of manual installation instructions for java 1.8.0_05.

I tried it out and it works just fine:

root@ALI:/home/supaham# java -version
java version "1.8.0_05"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_05-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.5-b02, mixed mode)

However 1.8.0_05 has a few bugs and invalid compilation errors.

So I went to update to 1.8.0_102 but then it hung again. The instructions to install 102 were the same as the one in the post linked above, but the url replaced with:

wget --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u102-b14/jdk-8u102-linux-x64.tar.gz

Here's the strace results of the java -version command on version 1.8.0_102

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]

No packages are required to install that I know of.

Edit: Although I can get java -version to work, I can't get a Minecraft instance to run without it hanging after displaying a message saying "Loading Libraries", usually on the same computer in normal Windows this step takes at most 5 seconds. So far it's been over two minutes and it's still stuck on that step with a very similar strace result as far as I can see.

[russalex]

Java has some known issues on the Anniversary Update. The strace you provide looks very similar to some of the issues I have seen. I believe that specific issue should be in the fix for #746.

[sunilmut]

I was unable to repro this in the 14971 build after following the repro $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

But, this is 1.8.0_111