[Java SE ] JVM Crash in jni_ReleaseByteArrayElements after Startup (Doc ID 2793209.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 12, 2023

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Symptoms

The JVM crashed soon after starting with the following stack trace.

 At the top of the stack trace, you see a few important methods.  The top method starts with "jni" which stands for Java Native Interface.  JNI allows native code to be called and executed from the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).  The second method from the top has the string "UNIXProcess_forkAndExec".  Fork and Exec is a native function, which which the Operating System (OS) must perform.  Then the sixth method from the top has the string "ProcessBuilder".  The ProcessBuilder method is used to create a new process.  So, the JVM is in the process of asking the Operating System to create a new UNIX process on its behalf.  The way that the OS  does this is with the fork and exec functions.  The fork and exec functions are in the UNIX OS native C library.

Cause

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