Hybris 6.7 server startup issue on upgrading from 6.3

Question

While doing an prod deployment and starting the server with 6.7 after upgrading from 6.3 we receive the following error in the console

INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | SEVERE: LifecycleException INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | java.lang.VerifyError: (class: de/hybris/bootstrap/loader/metrics/ClassLoaderMetricRegistry, method: incrementEventCounter, signature: (Lde/hybris/bootstrap/loader/metrics/ClassLoaderMetricEvent;)V, offset: 21) invokedynamic bytecode is not supported in this class file version INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at de.hybris.bootstrap.loader.PlatformInPlaceClassLoader.(PlatformInPlaceClassLoader.java:32) INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappLoader$HybrisWebappClassLoader$1.call(HybrisWebappLoader.java:127) INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappLoader$HybrisWebappClassLoader$1.call(HybrisWebappLoader.java:1) INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappLoader$HybrisWebappClassLoader.invokeWithLock(HybrisWebappLoader.java:190) INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappLoader$HybrisWebappClassLoader.getPlatfromInPlaceClassLoader(HybrisWebappLoader.java:109) INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappLoader$HybrisWebappClassLoader.(HybrisWebappLoader.java:104) INFO | jvm 1 | main | 2019/08/13 00:46:11.308 | at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

Evnironment details:- Java : SAP JVM 8 Hybris : 6.7 patch 13

Tried reverting back to Java 8 instead of SAP_JVM 8 but still the same issue. Works fine in other environments with both java configs.

Answer 1

Actually this issue was due to one property in local.properties which is

tomcat.generaloptions=-XX:-UseSplitVerifier -Xms12g -Xmx12g -XX:+UseTLAB -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xloggc:${HYBRIS_LOG_DIR}/java_gc.log -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=10 -XX:GCLogFileSize=10M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false -Dorg.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperManager.mbean=true -Djava.endorsed.dirs="%CATALINA_HOME%/lib/endorsed" -Dcatalina.base=%CATALINA_BASE% -Dcatalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME% -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j_init_tomcat.properties -Djava.util.logging.config.file=jdk_logging.properties -Djava.io.tmpdir="${HYBRIS_TEMP_DIR}" -Dcom.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true

This property includes -XX:-UseSplitVerifier which was causing the issue. -XX:-UseSplitVerifier is deprecated as of Java 8.