Liferay 6.2 does not work with Oracle Java 8u261

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.X EE
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Environments > Java Runtime
• Labels:
  • ee-6.2.x

Liferay 6.2 starts up successfully with Java 8u251, but with 261, an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException will occur and you will be unable to access Liferay.

Since Liferay 6.2 is still under some support, I am creating this ticket, see https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016295852-Liferay-Portal-End-of-Life-Policy.

I was only able to reproduce on Ubuntu and not on Windows.

Steps to reproduce
1. Install Java 8u261 on Linux.
2. Start up Liferay 6.2
Result: You will see this error:

00:43:34,246 ERROR [localhost-startStop-1][MainServlet:397] java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
	at com.liferay.portal.util.PortalInstances._getDefaultCompanyId(PortalInstances.java:344)
	at com.liferay.portal.util.PortalInstances.getDefaultCompanyId(PortalInstances.java:83)
	at com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet.initCompanies(MainServlet.java:807)
	at com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet.init(MainServlet.java:394)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1280)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1193)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1088)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5176)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5460)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:656)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1635)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
00:43:34,279 INFO  [liferay/scheduler_dispatch-4][PluginPackageUtil:1280] Reloading repositories
Exception in thread "liferay/scheduler_dispatch-4" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.liferay.ibm.icu.impl.ICUResourceBundle
	at com.liferay.ibm.icu.impl.ZoneMeta.getSystemTimeZone(ZoneMeta.java:585)
	at com.liferay.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(TimeZone.java:675)
	at com.liferay.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone(TimeZone.java:644)
	at com.liferay.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone.getDefault(TimeZone.java:807)
	at com.liferay.ibm.icu.util.Calendar.getInstanceInternal(Calendar.java:1630)
	at com.liferay.ibm.icu.util.Calendar.getInstance(Calendar.java:1561)
	at com.liferay.portlet.blogs.util.LinkbackProducerUtil.sendQueuedPingbacks(LinkbackProducerUtil.java:62)
	at com.liferay.portlet.blogs.messaging.LinkbackMessageListener.doReceive(LinkbackMessageListener.java:31)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.BaseMessageListener.receive(BaseMessageListener.java:26)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.ClassLoaderBeanHandler.invoke(ClassLoaderBeanHandler.java:67)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy301.receive(Unknown Source)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.scheduler.messaging.SchedulerEventMessageListenerWrapper.receive(SchedulerEventMessageListenerWrapper.java:77)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.InvokerMessageListener.receive(InvokerMessageListener.java:72)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.ParallelDestination$1.run(ParallelDestination.java:71)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask._runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:682)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:593)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

This was reproduced on LIferay 6.2 Portal-172.