Can't start with profile flag

[manuranga]

Can't start with profiling jvm parameter.

$ export JAVA_OPTS='-prof'
$ ./carbon.sh

Throws:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/invoke/LambdaForm$MH
    at com.sun.demo.jvmti.hprof.Tracker.nativeCallSite(Native Method)
    at com.sun.demo.jvmti.hprof.Tracker.CallSite(Tracker.java:99)
    at java.lang.invoke.InvokerBytecodeGenerator.emitNewArray(InvokerBytecodeGenerator.java:889)
    at java.lang.invoke.InvokerBytecodeGenerator.generateCustomizedCodeBytes(InvokerBytecodeGenerator.java:688)
    at java.lang.invoke.InvokerBytecodeGenerator.generateCustomizedCode(InvokerBytecodeGenerator.java:618)
    at java.lang.invoke.LambdaForm.compileToBytecode(LambdaForm.java:654)
    at java.lang.invoke.LambdaForm.prepare(LambdaForm.java:635)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.<init>(MethodHandle.java:461)
    at java.lang.invoke.BoundMethodHandle.<init>(BoundMethodHandle.java:56)
    at java.lang.invoke.BoundMethodHandle$Species_L.<init>(BoundMethodHandle.java:209)
    at java.lang.invoke.BoundMethodHandle$Species_L.copyWith(BoundMethodHandle.java:226)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.asCollector(MethodHandle.java:1002)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl$AsVarargsCollector.<init>(MethodHandleImpl.java:460)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl$AsVarargsCollector.<init>(MethodHandleImpl.java:454)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl.makeVarargsCollector(MethodHandleImpl.java:445)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.setVarargs(MethodHandle.java:1325)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.getDirectMethodCommon(MethodHandles.java:1666)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.getDirectMethod(MethodHandles.java:1601)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.findStatic(MethodHandles.java:778)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl$Lazy.<clinit>(MethodHandleImpl.java:627)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl.varargsArray(MethodHandleImpl.java:1506)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl.varargsArray(MethodHandleImpl.java:1623)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.asCollector(MethodHandle.java:999)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl$AsVarargsCollector.<init>(MethodHandleImpl.java:460)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl$AsVarargsCollector.<init>(MethodHandleImpl.java:454)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl.makeVarargsCollector(MethodHandleImpl.java:445)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.setVarargs(MethodHandle.java:1325)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.getDirectMethodCommon(MethodHandles.java:1666)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.getDirectMethod(MethodHandles.java:1601)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.findStatic(MethodHandles.java:778)
    at java.lang.invoke.CallSite.<clinit>(CallSite.java:226)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleNatives.linkCallSiteImpl(MethodHandleNatives.java:307)
    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleNatives.linkCallSite(MethodHandleNatives.java:297)
    at org.wso2.carbon.launcher.Main.processCmdLineArgs(Main.java:170)
    at org.wso2.carbon.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:64)

[thusithathilina]

Seems a jdk bug https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027934

[Brain2000]

Same issue with javamail, so this is clearly a bug in Java. It happens when I call -agentlib:hprof=cpu=times, but not when I use -agentlib:hprof=cpu=samples

I'm using Java 8 build 152.