NoSuchSymbolException while trying to run jmap
Issue
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We get the following error when trying to run jmap
Attaching to process ID 11918, please wait... sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.NoSuchSymbolException: Could not find symbol "gHotSpotVMTypeEntryTypeNameOffset" in any of the known library names (libjvm.so, libjvm_g.so, gamma_g) at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.lookupInProcess(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:390) at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.getLongValueFromProcess(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:371) at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.readVMTypes(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:102) at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.<init>(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:85) at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.setupVM(BugSpotAgent.java:568) at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.go(BugSpotAgent.java:494) at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.attach(BugSpotAgent.java:332) at sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool.start(Tool.java:163) at sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.FinalizerInfo.main(FinalizerInfo.java:47) 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:616) at sun.tools.jmap.JMap.runTool(JMap.java:196) at sun.tools.jmap.JMap.main(JMap.java:128) -
We are not able to generate heapdump in windows jboss server using
jmaptool. Getting the below error while taking heapdump usingjmaptool:
E:\jboss\java\sun\1.6.43\bin>jmap.exe -F -dump:live,format=b,file=E:\test\heapdump.bin 8684
Attaching to process ID 8684, please wait...
sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.NoSuchSymbolException: Could not find symbol "gHotSpotVMTypes" in any of the known library names (jvm.dll, jvm_g.dll)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.lookupInProcess(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:389)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.readVMTypes(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:104)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.<init>(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:85)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.setupVM(BugSpotAgent.java:565)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.go(BugSpotAgent.java:494)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.attach(BugSpotAgent.java:332)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool.start(Tool.java:163)
at sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.HeapDumper.main(HeapDumper.java:77)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at sun.tools.jmap.JMap.runTool(JMap.java:179)
at sun.tools.jmap.JMap.main(JMap.java:110)
Debugger attached successfully.
sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.HeapDumper requires a java VM process/core!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- java-1.6.0-openjdk
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