RMI distributed garbage collection features are broken in JDK1.2fcs-A.

The distributed garbage collection features of RMI are broken in
JDK1.2fcs-A. Nothing gets garbage collected due to some security
related problem that gives a Null Pointer Exception.

When I run the RMI DGC Test Suite no remote objects that are no
longer referenced get garbage collected. While running the RMI
DGC Test Suite I get the following exception which is what is
blowing up the DGC features of RMI.

This exception occurs when I dereference a bunch of remote object
references from the DGCTestClient program.

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.security.AccessControlContext.equals(AccessControlContext.java:434)
        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.checkConnectPermission(TCPChannel.java:137)
        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:169)
        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:302)
        at sun.rmi.transport.DGCImpl_Stub.clean(DGCImpl_Stub.java)
        at sun.rmi.transport.DGCClient.sendCleans(DGCClient.java:596)
        at sun.rmi.transport.DGCClient.run(DGCClient.java:653)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:472)

This problem occurs in JDK1.2fcs-A.

The RMI DGC Test Suite is part of the attachment. To run it do
the following:

% tar xvf rmi.tar
% starts -v /* Start the DGCTestServer */
% startc -c 4 -n 300 -t 5 m /* Start 4 DGCTestClient's to run for 5 mins */


For more info on running the RMI DGC Test Suite look at the README file.