jdk9 builds failing with: java.io.IOException: Mount point not found

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/08/2016 12:49, Matthias Klose wrote:

> In some build environments jdk9 builds fail with
>
> Error: jdk.tools.jlink.plugin.PluginException: java.io.IOException: Mount point
> not found
>
> complete build log e.g. at
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/281693434/buildlog_ubuntu-yakkety-arm64.openjdk-9_9~b133-1ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz
>
> The issue is not new, popped up earlier as seen in
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2009-May/000547.html
>
> However for some reason this code is not called during 7 and 8 builds, only for 9.
Can you submit a bug on this? It's possible that there hasn't been much 
testing in chroot environments.

As to why you are seeing this with JDK 9 builds then it is because the 
build runs jlink to create the run-time image. In JDK 8 and older then 
it was done by recipes in the build.

-Alan