Recently, the test runtime/CommandLine/OptionsValidation/TestOptionsWithRanges.java#id3 triggerd 2 times on linuxaarch64 the following assertion .
Both asserts occurred in January 2026.

# Internal Error (/priv/jenkins/ci2/client-home/workspace/openjdk-jdk-linux_aarch64-dbg/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/jfrRecorder.cpp:243), pid=2272, tid=2274
# assert(JvmtiEnvBase::get_phase() == JVMTI_PHASE_LIVE) failed: invalid init sequence

Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
V [libjvm.so+0xf88648] JfrRecorder::on_create_vm_3()+0x344 (jfrRecorder.cpp:243)
V [libjvm.so+0xef219c] Jfr::on_create_vm_3()+0xc (jfr.cpp:73)
V [libjvm.so+0x1a2867c] Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs*, bool*)+0x99c (threads.cpp:865)
V [libjvm.so+0xfec888] JNI_CreateJavaVM+0x78 (jni.cpp:3621)
C [libjli.so+0x3eb0] JavaMain+0x80 (java.c:1506)
C [libjli.so+0x772c] ThreadJavaMain+0xc (java_md.c:646)
C [libpthread.so.0+0x875c] start_thread+0x18c

Registers:
R0=0x0000ffff95bcbd40
R1=0x00000000000000f3
R2=0x0000ffff95bcc180
R3=0x0000ffff95bcc168
R4=0x0000ffff9658e000
R5=0x0000000000000058
R6=0x0000000100000000
R7=0x0000000000000000
R8=0x0000000000000000
R9=0x0000ffff93d6c250
R10=0x00000000edb5ffff
R11=0x000000000000ca10
R12=0x0000ffff440a9210
R13=0x000000000000270f
R14=0x0000000000000000
R15=0x0000000000000000
R16=0x0000ffff961cf6e0
R17=0x0000ffff9642fdc0
R18=0x0000000000000001
R19=0x0000ffff93d6c798
R20=0x0000ffff93d6c7b8
R21=0x0000ffff9624f1e0
R22=0x0000ffff961d5ae0
R23=0x0000ffff8c033910
R24=0x0000ffff93d6c828
R25=0x0000ffff93d6c7f0
R26=0x0000ffff962b3670
R27=0x0000ffff93d6c860
R28=0x0000000000000000
R29=0x0000ffff93d6c690