LDAPSync job failing with Error occurred during initialization of VM

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

LDAP Sync jobs are failing with no LDAPSync log being created, but the job report shows:

************************************************************************
**  ucxjlx6m   version 12.2.0+build.2108        changelist 1530016094 **
**  JOB 24446334 (ProcID:0000111374) START AT   22.06.2020 / 22:37:12 **
**                                   UTC TIME   23.06.2020 / 05:37:12 **
**  TEXT="        Job started             "                           **
************************************************************************
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

Environment

Release : 12.2

Component : AUTOMATION ENGINE

Cause

The error message is returned by java - see this oracle article.

Resolution

Follow the instructions on the oracle article.

https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Middleware/1006790_1.html

One customer validated removing rt.jar resolved this issue