JDK-8133907 : Some sun/security tests failed due to ProviderException
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: security-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.security
  • Affected Version: 9
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Submitted: 2015-08-19
  • Updated: 2016-07-04
  • Resolved: 2016-06-24
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JDK 9
9Resolved
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Duplicate :  
JDK-8077138 - Some PKCS11 tests fail because NSS library is not initialized
Description
The following sun/security test failed due to ProviderException (refer to attached log for Login.sh):

RULE sun/security/pkcs11/Provider/Login.sh Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed ExitCode: 1 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/Signature/TestRSAKeyLength.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/ReadCertificates.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/ReadPKCS12.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestCurves.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestECDH.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestECDH2.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestECDSA.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestECDSA2.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestECGenSpec.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/ec/TestKeyFactory.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/rsa/KeyWrap.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 
RULE sun/security/pkcs11/rsa/TestCACerts.java Exception: java.security.ProviderException: Initialization failed 

Tested on 9b77 + Win8.1x86 (zh_TW locale)
Comments
I am wondering if updating tests to set English locale via system properties might solve this issue.
15-06-2016
Those tests seem to fail intermittently only on Windows machines where non-English locate is set.
15-06-2016