TC server 4.1.11 version ( 9.0.54.A Release), Upgrading JDK 8 to JDK 17

Products

VMware Tanzu tc Server

Issue/Introduction

TC server 4.1.11 version ( 9.0.54.A Release), Upgrading JDK 8 to JDK 17,

If you're seeing the below error stack with "Unrecognized VM option" and issue with "java.rmi/sun.rmi.registry" , Provided in the below error stack example. you can try the following below as suggested

Error 1: INFO:

INFO: Server startup in [948] milliseconds
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:InitialHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500 -XX:MaxHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags -XX:+PrintGC -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:ThreadStackSize=256 -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC 
INFO: Server initialization in [1372] milliseconds
Mar 01, 2023 9:42:26 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in [816] milliseconds
NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS:  --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
Unrecognized VM option 'PrintGCDateStamps'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS:  --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
Unrecognized VM option 'PrintGCDateStamps'

Error 2:

Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
[0.000s][warning][gc] -Xloggc is deprecated. Will use -Xlog:gc:logs/gc-2023-03-07-10-48-47.log instead.
-XX:ConcGCThreads=1 -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:G1ConcRefinementThreads=2 -XX:GCDrainStackTargetSize=64 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:InitialHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:MarkStackSize=4194304 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500 -XX:MaxHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:MinHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=251658240 -XX:+SegmentedCodeCache -XX:ThreadStackSize=256 -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseG1GC
java.lang.Error: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize component [StandardServer[-1]]
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:727)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:746)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: superclass access check failed: class com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener$JmxRegistry (in unnamed module @0x78e03bb5) cannot access class sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl (in module java.rmi) because module java.rmi does not export sun.rmi.registry to unnamed module @0x78e03bb5
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:1012)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:137)
...

Environment

Product Version: 4.1

Resolution

TC server 4.1.11 version Supports JDK17 upgrade;

Error 1: GC options are changed starting from JAVA 11, Please check the Oracle documentation, and conversation table for it.

Note that PrintGCDateStamps doesn't have an equivalent mapping and will need to be removed.
Error 2: Please add the following fix in bin/setenv.sh of tcserver # JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS is only used by JVM versions 9 and above. JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS="--add-exports=java.rmi/sun.rmi.registry=ALL-UNNAMED"