Java application fails to start with java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

Java application fails to start with failure trying to find class sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen. Issue started happening after upgrading to java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.111.

SEVERE: Container startup failed
java.io.IOException: Failed to start a listener: winstone.HttpsConnectorFactory
        at winstone.Launcher.spawnListener(Launcher.java:207)
        at winstone.Launcher.<init>(Launcher.java:149)
        at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at Main._main(Main.java:246)
        at Main.main(Main.java:91)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/security/x509/CertAndKeyGen
        at winstone.HttpsConnectorFactory.start(HttpsConnectorFactory.java:101)
        at winstone.Launcher.spawnListener(Launcher.java:205)
        ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
        ... 10 more

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Java OpenJDK 1.7

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