Re: Weird ClassCastException running lucene 5.2.1 on Java 1.8.

2016-02-25 Thread Krishnamurthy, Kannan
Hi Uwe, Thanks for the pointers. We didn't see this error after upgrading to 8u74. Thanks, Kannan. From: Uwe Schindler Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:16 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Weird ClassCastException running l

RE: Weird ClassCastException running lucene 5.2.1 on Java 1.8.

2016-02-24 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi Kannan, the errors you see look like JVM bugs. We have no reports about this, but as the 2nd occurrence of this bug also refers to Java 8u65, I would say: Broken JVM. This has nothing to do with Lucene and recompiling the sources with Java 8 will make no difference, as this is caused by brok

Re: Weird ClassCastException running lucene 5.2.1 on Java 1.8.

2016-02-24 Thread Torsten Krah
Hi, you've already asked something similar in January about index corruption and Uwe Schindler already told you to switch to a modern JVM and not that antique one. See: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/296418?page=last Quote from him: ... This Java version is "antique".