The test failed on all platforms in PIT of HD for JDK9 b06. Only on fastdebug builds except for Solaris-sparc where it failed on product build as well. (VMFlags: -server -Xcomp)

The logs look like

RMID: starting rmid on port #31939...
JAVAVM: command = [/export/local/aurora/CommonData/jdk/jre/bin/java, -Xcomp, -server, -Xcomp, -Djava.security.policy=/export/local/aurora/CommonData/j2se_jdk/jdk/test/javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection/rmid.security.policy, -Dsun.rmi.server.activation.debugExec=true, -Dtest.src=/export/local/aurora/CommonData/j2se_jdk/jdk/test/javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection, -Dtest.classes=/export/local/aurora/sandbox/results/workDir/classes/8/javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection, -Djava.rmi.server.logLevel=v, -Dsun.rmi.activation.execTimeout=60000, sun.rmi.server.Activation, -log, /export/local/aurora/sandbox/results/workDir/javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection/RMIConnector_NPETest/./log, -port, 31939, -C-Dtest.src=/export/local/aurora/CommonData/j2se_jdk/jdk/test/javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection, -C-Dtest.classes=/export/local/aurora/sandbox/results/workDir/classes/8/javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection, -C-Xcomp, -C-server, -C-Xcomp, -C-Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=false]
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9900ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9800ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9700ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9600ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9500ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9400ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9300ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9200ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9100ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 9000ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8900ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8800ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8700ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8600ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8500ms
Activation.main: warning: sun.rmi.activation.execPolicy system
        property unspecified and no ExecPermissions/ExecOptionPermissions
        granted; subsequent activation attempts may fail due to unsuccessful
ExecPermission/ExecOptionPermission permission checks. For
documentation on how to configure rmid security, refer to:

        http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/solaris/rmid.html
        http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/win32/rmid.html

RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8400ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8300ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8200ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8100ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 8000ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7900ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7800ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7700ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7600ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7500ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7400ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 7300ms

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RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 300ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 200ms
RMID: rmid not started, will retry for 100ms
TEST FAILED: start rmid failed... giving up
TestFailedException: TEST FAILED: start rmid failed... giving up
at TestLibrary.bomb(TestLibrary.java:121)
at RMID.start(RMID.java:290)
at RMID.start(RMID.java:219)
at RMIConnector_NPETest.main(RMIConnector_NPETest.java:41)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:484)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:94)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

RULE javax/management/remote/mandatory/connection/RMIConnector_NPETest.java Exception TestFailedException: TEST FAILED: start rmid failed... giving up