[ovirt-devel] Java 1.8

[Roy Golan]

On 05/05/2015 09:15 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "knarra" <knarra at redhat.com>
>> To: devel at ovirt.org
>> Cc: "Stanislav Graf" <sgraf at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 8:50:38 AM
>> Subject: [ovirt-devel] ovirt-engine replies with 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable on fresh install
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> >From last Tuesday (Apr-28), I'm experiencing
>> "ovirt-engine replies with 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable on fresh
>> install" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217023 I tried to
>> completely reinstall before filing BZ and the issue was reproducible. I also
>> updated today my install with latest, still the same.
>>
>> Am I alone who is hit by this BZ? Anything I could try? Should I reinstall
>> again tomorrow?

I saw something similar at my dev env and only after I drop-create my db 
it was solved. if
I'll see it again I'll report on the bz.

> The mentioned bug does not seem very relevant.
>
> After checking with Kasturi, it seems that he is trying to run it with
> java-1.8.0-openjdk on RHEL6.6.

EAP 6.4 supports jdk8, jboss-as-7.1.1 doesn't(will fail to load)

> For now, unless you care about this, just remove and install 1.7.
fair, but I don't think is related to the DB problem he is seeing.
> Until the situation with 1.8 stabilizes, we might want to do something, not
> sure exactly what - perhaps change the script java-home to not accept 1.8
> for now (and people that want to test that will have to override by having there
> a trivial java-home.local pointing at their 1.8 home), or make engine-setup
> notice and prompt, whatever.
for overriding jdk use :
OVIRT_ENGINE_JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk/home
OVIRT_ENGINE_JAVA_HOME_FORCE=1