OracleJDK 7: Support appears to be broken as of three days ago

[alexflav23]

Using the following setting in .travis.yml

jdk:
  - oraclejdk7

However:

Patching redis-server init script
$ jdk_switcher use oraclejdk7
Switching to Oracle JDK7 (java-7-oracle), JAVA_HOME will be set to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle

And then immediately after:

java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)
$ javac -J-Xmx32m -version
javac 1.8.0_131
Using Scala 2.11.8

[offa]

I have the same issue. It seems only Oracle JDK is broken, the other still work.

Maybe related to #7019

[dannil]

Possibly related to #7884.

[alexflav23]

Hi

The jdk_switcher seems to work now, however fails to export the correct JVM path!

$ jdk_switcher use oraclejdk7
Switching to Oracle JDK7 (java-7-oracle), JAVA_HOME will be set to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
update-java-alternatives: directory does not exist: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
Updating sbt

This is still not fixed as a result!

[khmarbaise]

Hi,
exactly the same issue here:

Switching to Oracle JDK7 (java-7-oracle), JAVA_HOME will be set to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
update-java-alternatives: directory does not exist: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle

Changed temporarily to jdk 8 which works...

It would be great if this could be fixed to keep JDK 7 working...

Thanks for that great platform...

Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise

[iriberri]

Please, see #7884 (comment). I'm closing this as a duplicate.

oraclejdk7 is unfortunately no longer available in Trusty after our latest updates, since we can no longer support oraclejdk7 on our recent build images due to Oracle's withdrawal. See: http://www.webupd8.org/2017/06/why-oracle-java-7-and-6-installers-no.html

If this is an option for you, I'd recommend switching to jdk: openjdk7, which is available in the new Trusty images.

[khmarbaise]

Using jdk: openjdk7 as alternative is very good. Thanks for your answer.