al.smith@eng 2000-03-09

When running the rmid file on Solaris 7 32 bit machines, the following error is intermittently displayed.
Of the 504 rmi tests that are run, 51 tests fail due to this utility not running consistantly. Sometimes, but rarely(less then 5% of the time), when a re-test is conducted, the tests pass.

This issue needs to be addressed ASAP to ensure accuracy in the quality testing process.

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%> /net/tapas/export0/jdk13/solaris/bin/rmid

rmid: unable to restart service
rmid: exception occurred: group creation failed after 2 tries; nested exception is:
        java.rmi.UnmarshalException: Error unmarshaling return header; nested exception is:
        java.io.EOFException
java.rmi.activation.ActivationException: group creation failed after 2 tries; nested exception is:
        java.rmi.UnmarshalException: Error unmarshaling return header; nested exception is:
        java.io.EOFException
java.rmi.UnmarshalException: Error unmarshaling return header; nested exception is:
        java.io.EOFException
java.io.EOFException
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readByte(DataInputStream.java:224)
        at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:186)
        at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:122)
        at java.rmi.activation.ActivationGroup_Stub.newInstance(Unknown Source)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation$ObjectEntry.activate(Activation.java:1441)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation$GroupEntry.activate(Activation.java:1094)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation$GroupEntry.restartServices(Activation.java:836)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation.restartServices(Activation.java:184)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation.startActivation(Activation.java:146)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation.main(Activation.java:1977)

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jeff.hsiao@eng 2000-03-09

I have also seen intermittent errors on win95, win98 and winNT.


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rmid logs are maintained for persistence. Fresh test runs should wipe out
state of previous executions before running. Add a remove statement before
the rmid start:

% rm -rf ./log
% rmid

dana.burns@East 2000-03-21