openjdk dies with: could not find libjava.so as root

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:53:37PM +0900, Maho NAKATA wrote:
> Hi
> I cannot launch openjdk java as root
> 
> # which java
> /usr/local/openjdk6/bin/java
> root# java
> Error: could not find libjava.so
> Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment.
> root# pkg_info | grep openjdk
> openjdk6-b16_1      Sun\'s java 6 virtual machine release under the GPL v2
> 
> however as normal user:
> % which java
> /usr/X11R6/bin/java
> % java -version
> openjdk version "1.6.0-internal"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-internal-maho_26_may_2009_11_16-b00)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b17, mixed mode)
> 

Something strange about your environment? On my system it looks like:

    osiris-~,6:59am> which java
    /usr/local/bin/java
    osiris-~,6:59am> java -version
    openjdk version "1.6.0-internal"
    OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
    1.6.0-internal-root_24_may_2009_16_24-b00)
    OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b17, mixed mode)
    osiris-~,6:59am> su -
    Password:
    osiris-~,6:59am# which java
    /usr/local/bin/java
    osiris-~,6:59am# java -version
    openjdk version "1.6.0-internal"
    OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
    1.6.0-internal-root_24_may_2009_16_24-b00)
    OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b17, mixed mode)

Is you LD_LIBRARY_PATH set?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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