jscv : Cannot locate JVM library file

Question

When I try to start a demo jsvc implementation I get the following error output of jsvc:

jsvc -cp ApacheDeamonDemo.jar -pidfile /mypath/pid.txt -outfile /mypath/log.txt -errfile /mypath/err.log net.example.deamon.DemoDeamon

I get the following error ouput:

Cannot find any VM in Java Home /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_21.jdk/Contents/Home
Cannot locate JVM library file
Service exit with a return value of 1

Actually the path is correct. Therefore I do not understand why jsvc is telling me this. I'm using a mac.

Answer 1

Almost five years later, so probably too late to help the original asker, but I had the same problem today trying to run jsvc with open-jdk-11 for AMD64, so this might help someone later.

To diagnose the problem, I ran jsvc with the --debug flag, and that told me that it was choking on trying to find libjvm.so. I ran find /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64 -name libjvm.so and found it at /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/lib/server/libjvm.so, but jsvc was looking for it at /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64//lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so. So, I did this, and then jscv worked:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/lib/amd64
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/lib/server /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/lib/amd64/

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It turns out the problem is fixed in later versions of jsvc. I experienced the issue with jsvc version 1.0.6, which is the one you get if you run apt install jsvc on Ubuntu 18.04. After I downloaded the 1.2.0 version commons-daemon src from Apache and compiled jsvc myself, the issue is fixed and I didn't need the symlink anymore.