ADDITIONAL SYSTEM INFORMATION :
Occurs in linux Redhat and mac with OpenJDK11 version 11.0.20.0.8-2.el9


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Full error message:
Caused by: java.lang.Error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.20.0.8-2.el9.x86_64/lib/tzdb.dat (No such file or directory)
at java.base/sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile$1.run(ZoneInfoFile.java:261)
at java.base/sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile$1.run(ZoneInfoFile.java:251)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.base/sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.<clinit>(ZoneInfoFile.java:251)
at java.base/sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo.getTimeZone(ZoneInfo.java:588)
at java.base/java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(TimeZone.java:577)
at java.base/java.util.TimeZone.setDefaultZone(TimeZone.java:682)
at java.base/java.util.TimeZone.getDefaultRef(TimeZone.java:653)
at java.base/java.util.TimeZone.getDefault(TimeZone.java:642)

The latest redhat build of java-11-openjdk version, is missing a dependency on tzdata-java. This means that any java program using the popular log4j library fails at runtime.

Older versions of java 11 all worked fine until this latest patch release, so this is a bug that retroactively will break many, many packages.

REGRESSION : Last worked in version 11

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
This occurs most easily in redhat where openjdk 11.0.20 is available through the repositories.
There needs to be no prexisting java install of any kind.

docker run -it --rm redhat/ubi9:latest
# then inside the container...
dnf install -y java-11-openjdk maven
stat /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.20.0.8-2.el9.x86_64/lib/tzdb.dat
# this will show that tzdb.dat exists and is a link to /usr/share/javazi-1.8/tzdb.dat
stat /usr/share/javazi-1.8/tzdb.dat


To reproduce the problem with the error I mentioned I have attached some source code which will fail to compile against 11.0.20


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
File /usr/share/javazi-1.8/tzdb.dat exists and stat shows its statistics
ACTUAL -
File does not exist.
stat: cannot statx '/usr/share/javazi-1.8/tzdb.dat': No such file or directory

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
The helloworld example from the log4j website is enough. https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/api.html

source:
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

public class HelloWorld
{
    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger( "HelloWorld");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        logger.info("Hello, World!");
    }
}

pom:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>org.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>openjdk11020-repro</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.20.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.20.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>
---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
manually installing `tzdata-java` fixes the issue. The bug is that java rpm now misses `tzdata-java` as a package dependency. It is unclear if the deb package is affected, since 11.0.20 has not yet reached debian or ubuntu repositories.

FREQUENCY : always