Bug 13854

Summary:	java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless updates removes /usr/bin/java and doesn't reinstall it
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Luca Olivetti <luca>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	D Morgan <dmorganec>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser, marja11, oe, stormi-mageia
Version:	4	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.65-2.5.1.1.mga4.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Luca Olivetti 2014-08-04 09:42:46 CEST

After a recent update my service depending on java didn't start. In fact, after the update, there was no /usr/bin/java.
I looked at the rpm and I see that it has a postuninstall scriptlet that removes the alternatives (as did the previous, upgraded, one)

# rpm -q --scripts java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless
postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
  alternatives --remove java /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.65-2.5.1.1.mga4.x86_64/jre/bin/java
  alternatives --remove jre_openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.65-2.5.1.1.mga4.x86_64/jre
  alternatives --remove jre_1.7.0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.65-2.5.1.1.mga4.x86_64/jre
  alternatives --remove jre_1.7.0_openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.65-2.5.1.1.mga4.x86_64

exit 0


but there's no corresponging postinstall scriptlet to install the alternative.
Now, I also checked the package in release (http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mageia/distrib/4/x86_64/media/core/release/java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.60-2.4.4.2.mga4.x86_64.rpm) and it also is missing the 'alternatives --install', so it's probable that I manually installed the alternative and forgot about it.
The problem is that the update broke what I (probably) did.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Manuel Hiebel 2014-08-21 11:12:57 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => dmorganec

Comment 1 Luca Olivetti 2014-10-27 09:03:38 CET

Another update, another breakage...
java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.71-2.5.3.1.mga4

Comment 2 Luca Olivetti 2015-04-16 09:12:02 CEST

And here it goes another one....
java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.79-2.5.5.1.mga4.x86_64.rpm

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-16 15:34:25 CEST

I had the same problem on a server of mine, /usr/bin/java suddenly disappeared after an update.

CC: (none) => stormi
Severity: normal => critical

Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-16 15:36:07 CEST

Summary: java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless doesn't install (alternatives) /usr/bin/java => java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless updates removes /usr/bin/java and doesn't reinstall it

Marja Van Waes 2015-04-16 16:16:51 CEST

CC: (none) => luigiwalser, marja11, oe

Comment 4 David Walser 2015-04-16 16:19:39 CEST

Please report this in RedHat's bugzilla if you haven't yet.

Comment 5 Luca Olivetti 2015-04-16 20:06:57 CEST

I'm using mageia, not redhat?

Comment 6 David Walser 2015-04-17 02:28:50 CEST

We have neither the expertise nor the resources to maintain this package ourselves, so we use Fedora's package for this.  The Mageia 4 one is from Fedora 20 and the Mageia 5 one is from Fedora 22.

Comment 7 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:20:29 CEST

Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later 
Mageia version.

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able to fix it before Mageia 4's end of life. If you are able to reproduce it 
against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click on "Version" and 
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Comment 8 David Walser 2015-09-21 15:51:46 CEST

%post headless in Mageia 5 does have an alternatives --install for %{_bindir}/java.  This is OLD.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD