Problem running JRuby 1.6.2 (via jruby-jars.gem) on 32-bit Systems

We should not be dumping stack on load...So raising visibility for 1.6.3. If this happens on all 32 bit systems something is really wrong.

rubiii is the user on irc who I have been talking too about this. It is unclear what is wrong at this point. The description is likely wrong at this point, but pending more information I will not change it. When running a small script from the command-line calling stat with native.verbose enabled it runs fine. rubyiii will be trying to reduce his issue to something reproducible and something we can dig into. It is still possible this is only an environment issue, but it would be nice to understand the issue (at the very least it may lead to a better error message on our part).

I believe this is the same problem we've seen before with inner classes getting initialized before their parent classes. We originally had this issue reported for the SocketLibrary class when it was an inner class of RubySocket, and then had reports of other similar cases. It seems that after Java 6u18 on some platforms, referencing an inner class before ever referencing its outer class causes this error.

It may have been fixed in later releases, which could indicate why it doesn't show up for you (Tom).

The only fix we came up with was to move the inner class out or always reference the outer class first. The former is the cleaner fix. It would be a simple fix to make to jaffl.

This should be fixed for 1.6.3 based on our update of jnr-posix to 1.1.8. The issue seems to be a bug introduced in a Java release (or more than one) which does not seem to deal well with nested static inner classes unless the outer class is referenced first.