Bug#897945: visualvm will not start since upgrade of libnb-*-java to 8.1+dfsg1-8

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

Package: visualvm
Version: 1.3.9-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

visualvm will not start since upgrade of libnb-*-java to 8.1+dfsg1-8. It just
pauses at the splash screen for a while and then exits with code 2. strace
suggests it tries some sort of upgrade.

Workaround is to downgrade these dependencies to 8.1+dfsg1-7. These have
expired from the pool but can be found on snapshot.debian.org.

libnb-*-java dependencies:

libnb-org-openide-util-lookup-java
libnb-org-openide-util-java
libnb-org-openide-modules-java
libnb-platform18-java

Tested with OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 9, and OpenJDK 10.

Kind regards,
Ben.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages visualvm depends on:
pn  libnb-platform18-java       <none>
ii  libvisualvm-jni             1.3.9-1
ii  openjdk-10-jdk [java7-sdk]  10.0.1+10-3
ii  openjdk-8-jdk [java7-sdk]   8u171-b11-1
ii  openjdk-9-jdk [java7-sdk]   9.0.4+12-4

visualvm recommends no packages.

visualvm suggests no packages.

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