RFR: 8275007: Java fails to start with null charset if LC_ALL is set to certain locales

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:31:11 GMT, Ichiroh Takiguchi <itakiguchi at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I tested your code on my CentOS7 x86_64. I saw following exception.

This doesn't surprise me. It would be be useful if you could do the same experiment with main line and JDK 17 too. There have been several reports of NPE when trying to startup in environments where the locale does not map to a charset that the JDK supports.

In your output I see "WARNING: The encoding of the underlying platform's file system is not supported by the JVM: PT154". Thereafter what you are seeing a recursive initialisation issue. To break this cycle we need jnuEncoding to be set before initialising the file system.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6282