On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 4:13 PM Decarbon <kyuubimodero...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 4:05 PM Decarbon <kyuubimodero...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been installing and running a Windows Service using Tomcat 9.0.83
>> on OpenJDK 8 just fine. But when I moved to OpenJDK 11, specifically
>> microsoft-jdk-11.0.21-windows-x64.zip, the Service always fails to start
>> with the following error logged in commons-daemon.log:
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [info]  [15344] Apache Commons Daemon procrun
>> (1.3.4.0 64-bit) started.
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [info]  [15344] Running Service 'FFBruh'...
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [info]  [15636] Starting service...
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [error] [18700] CreateJavaVM Failed with error [-6]
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [error] [18700] The system cannot find the file
>> specified.
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [error] [15636] Failed to start Java
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [error] [15636] ServiceStart returned 4.
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [info]  [15344] Run service finished.
>> [2024-01-19 15:39:03] [info]  [15344] Apache Commons Daemon procrun
>> finished.
>>
>> The service is installed as follows:
>>
>> C:\app\bin\tomcat9.exe //IS//%SERVICE_NAME% ^
>>     --Description "Some Desc" ^
>>     --DisplayName "Display Name" ^
>>     --Install "C:\app\bin\tomcat9.exe" ^
>>     --LogPath "%CATALINA_BASE%\logs" ^
>>     --StdOutput auto ^
>>     --StdError auto ^
>>     --Classpath "%CLASSPATH%" ^
>>     --Jvm "%JVM%" ^
>>     --StartMode jvm ^
>>     --StopMode jvm ^
>>     --StartPath "%CATALINA_HOME%" ^
>>     --StopPath "%CATALINA_HOME%" ^
>>     --StartClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap ^
>>     --StopClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap ^
>>     --StartParams start ^
>>     --StopParams stop ^
>>      --Startup auto ^
>>      --JvmMs %INIT_MEMORY_POOL_SIZE% ^
>>      --JvmMx %MAX_MEMORY_POOL_SIZE% ^
>>      --JvmSs %STACK_SIZE% ^
>>      --Environment "ksp=%KSP%" ^
>>      --StartPath "%CATALINA_HOME%" ^
>>      --JvmOptions9 "some long list of -D options"
>>
>> One thing to note is that, with OpenJDK 8, the JRE was included in the
>> JDK but from OpenJDK 11 they have removed it and is not part of the JDK.
>> Therefore, with 8 the --Jvm flag was pointing to
>> C:\app\java\jre\bin\jvm.dll but now after the upgrade it is
>> C:\app\java\bin\jvm.dll
>>
>> Looking for your advice here.
>> Thanks!
>> Decarbon
>>
>
> Small correction, the path to %JVM% was C:\app\java\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
> and now with OpenJDK 11 C:\app\java\bin\server\jvm.dll
>

I was able to solve the problem, turns out one of the JVM options I had was
-Djava.endorsed.dirs which was removed from JDK 11 and was causing the
service to fail to start.
Removing the options fixes the issue.

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