There are several failure with reason "Cannot invoke "String.equals(Object)" because "<local1>" is null" which really caused by reading the command from debugee via socket. Like:
String command = pipe.readln(); if (!command.equals(AbstractDebuggeeTest.COMMAND_READY)) { setSuccess(false); log.complain("TEST BUG: unknown debuggee's command: " + command); return false; } The command is null when socket fails with EOFException which usually means that debugee has been crashed/exited or killed by timeout handler. However, it is not clear from the error log. So https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8310940 has different problems with the same NPE symptom. The fix update error handling to improve logging. So output loos like: _open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/tmp' \ -Dtest.compiler.opts= \ -Dtest.java.opts= \ -Dtest.jdk=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/images/jdk \ -Dcompile.jdk=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/images/jdk \ -Dtest.timeout.factor=4.0 \ -Dtest.nativepath=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/images/test/hotspot/jtreg/native \ -Dtest.root=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/hotspot/jtreg \ -Dtest.name=vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002/TestDescription.java \ -Dtest.file=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002/TestDescription.java \ -Dtest.src=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002 \ -Dtest.src.path=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002:/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase:/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/lib \ -Dtest.classes=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/classes/0/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002/TestDescription.d \ -Dtest.class.path=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/classes/0/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002/TestDescription.d:/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/classes/0/vmTestbase:/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/classes/0/test/lib \ -Dtest.class.path.prefix=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/open/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002:/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/classes/0/vmTestbase:/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/classes/0/test/lib \ -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=1.5625 \ -Dtest.boot.jdk=/var/tmp/jib-lmesnik/install/jdk/21/35/bundles/linux-x64/jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz/jdk-21 \ -Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/tmp \ -Djava.library.path=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/images/test/hotspot/jtreg/native \ com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainWrapper /home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002/TestDescription.d/main.0.jta -verbose -arch=linux-x64 -waittime=5 -debugee.vmkind=java -transport.address=dynamic '-debugee.vmkeys="-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=1.5625 -Dtest.boot.jdk=/var/tmp/jib-lmesnik/install/jdk/21/35/bundles/linux-x64/jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz/jdk-21 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/tmp' " TEST RESULT: Failed. Execution failed: `main' threw exception: nsk.share.Failure: Caught EOFException while reading an object from PipeIO Listener Thread connection. Check if debugee process is exited (crashed, killed) before responded. -------------------------------------------------- Test results: failed: 1 Report written to /home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-results/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java/html/report.html Results written to /home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-support/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java Error: Some tests failed or other problems occurred. Finished running test 'jtreg:open/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/VirtualMachine/dispose/dispose002/TestDescription.java' Test report is stored in /home/lmesnik/ws/jdk-vmTestbase/build/linux-x64/test-results/jtreg_open_test_hotspot_jtreg_vmTestbase_nsk_jdi_VirtualMachine_dispose_dispose002_TestDescription_java ------------- Commit messages: - updated SocketConnection.java Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16280/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16280&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8318573 Stats: 3 lines in 1 file changed: 2 ins; 0 del; 1 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16280.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16280/head:pull/16280 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16280