JDK-8049032 : [GNOME 3] issue with jdk8 and realSync
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.awt
  • Affected Version: 8
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: linux_ubuntu
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2014-07-02
  • Updated: 2014-09-30
  • Resolved: 2014-09-30
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JDK 8
8-poolResolved
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-7033533 - realSync() doesn't work with Xfce
Relates :  
JDK-8051857 - OperationTimedOut exception inside from XToolkit.syncNativeQueue call
Description
I have a new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system with a default (for gnome) Gnome 3 session and a JDK8 (b132 fcs or 8u20 b20, all the same). 
Any test with realSync hangs there. First, the system does some drastic repaint (removing everything, doing something like setting display mode anew, painting everything), then it hangs with 
sun.awt.SunToolkit$OperationTimedOut: 10001
	at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.syncNativeQueue(XToolkit.java:2413)
	at sun.awt.SunToolkit.realSync(SunToolkit.java:1569)
	at sun.awt.SunToolkit.realSync(SunToolkit.java:1501)

Note that new realSync implemented in jdk9 works OK.
I have to use jdk9 b06 or later for basebuild on this system which is wrong as we need to compare jdk9 with a released system. It is also hard to do on a farm hardware. I'm afraid a solution would be, backport of realSync to 8u, perhaps conditional or something. Gnome (if not 3) used to be a main target system for XToolkit.
Comments
JDK-7033533 and JDK-8051857 are backported to 8u40
30-09-2014
No, current jdk9 isn't affected, probably because realSync() is reimplemented there anew.
21-07-2014
is it affecting jdk 9 ?
15-07-2014
I don't know about jdk7 but afraid it's the same as jdk8.
02-07-2014
Well there are several flavors of Gnome stuff on Ubuntu. I carefully installed whatever was bundled with 14.04, it was Gnome 3.10 (see in http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gnome/). And I always select just "Gnome" session on reboot keeping Unity as a default. The Net is full of stories about Gnome 3 on Ubuntu because why not? Now wait, pretty soon we'll have it on OEL 7: RHEL 7 is already out with it.
02-07-2014
AFAIK Ubuntu doesn't ship with Gnome 3. Do we really need to support such configuration?
02-07-2014