NullPointerException with openjdk 6 on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 from 10.10. Since then, I get a NullPointerException in the TimeZone class with openjdk 6.

TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-0:00");

There is no exception with openjdk 7, nor do my coworkers get an exception with openjdk6. So it looks like I'm missing some necessary library.

Also, this works just fine: TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT") on my machine with openjdk 6

Answer 1

I was able to solve it by complete removing the tzdata-java package and re-installing. Note that also removed a bunch of openjdk6 packages as well. (I had already tried completely removing and reinstalling the openjdk6 packages without luck).