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  1. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  2. JBEAP-14193

(7.1.z) RPM - Setting JAVA_HOME not effective in RHEL-6 init scripts

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Major
    • 7.1.1.CR2, 7.1.1.GA
    • 7.1.0.GA
    • RPM, Scripts
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      Manually edit (as root) the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/eap7-standalone and fix the setting of PATH as in the description above.

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      Manually edit (as root) the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/eap7-standalone and fix the setting of PATH as in the description above.
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      Install the EAP 7.1.0 RPMs on a RHEL-6 machine.

      Make sure both Java 6 (or Java7) and Java 8 are installed and the alternatives do NOT point to Java 8 (in some systems the default MUST be different from Java 8 because of other software that cannot run with Java 8)

      Try and start the eap7-standalone service.

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      Install the EAP 7.1.0 RPMs on a RHEL-6 machine. Make sure both Java 6 (or Java7) and Java 8 are installed and the alternatives do NOT point to Java 8 (in some systems the default MUST be different from Java 8 because of other software that cannot run with Java 8) Try and start the eap7-standalone service.
    • EAP 7.1.1

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      The file /etc/sysconfig/eap7-standalone provides a way to set the JAVA_HOME.

      For instance, it was set to

      # Uncomment the following for location of java in the SDK
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64

      However, the server still fails to start:

      # service eap7-standalone start
Starting eap7-standalone:                                  [FAILED]
Please ensure alternatives is set to use Java specification version 1.8 or later.

      This is caused by this line in the init script itself /etc/rc.d/init.d/eap7-standalone

      if [ -z "`echo $PATH | grep $JAVAPTH`" ]; then
  export PATH=$PATH:$JAVAPTH
fi

      Usually PATH already has 'java' which in this machine was from a Java 6, and the service fals to start.

      These lines should be:

      if [ -z "`echo $PATH | grep $JAVAPTH`" ]; then
  export PATH=$JAVAPTH:$PATH
fi

      So the intended settings override whatever was there previously.

      With this change the server starts normally:

      # service eap7-standalone start
Starting eap7-standalone:                                  [  OK  ]

      Note: JAVAPTH is set from JAVA_HOME some lines above:

      #make sure java is on your path
JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"$JAVA_HOME/bin"}

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