TIBCO Host instance does not start-up on Linux.

Products	Versions
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid	-
TIBCO BPM Enterprise (formerly TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM)	-
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Service Engine	-

Description

Description:
TIBCO Host instance does not start-up from the command line. From the tibcohost.log the following log entries were reported:
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20 Nov 2014 08:33:00,807 [TIBCOHostHPACLI] [INFO ] com.tibco.amx.hpa.Host - Starting TIBCO Host.
20 Nov 2014 08:33:01,055 [TibcoHostInstance-AIP_AMX_SERVER2] [INFO ] com.tibco.security.impl.np.SecurityVendor - Initializing JSSE's crypto provider class com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider in default mode
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Symptoms:
Symptoms:
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Checked thread dump, tibcohost blocked by the the J2SE SecureRandom:

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"TibcoHostInstance-Admin-AIP_ENTERPRISE-AIP_AMXADMIN_SERVER" prio=3 tid=0x0000000100143000 nid=0x1 runnable [0xffffffff7fffa000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at java.io.FileInputStream.readBytes(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:220)
    at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator$URLSeedGenerator.getSeedBytes(SeedGenerator.java:493)
    at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator.generateSeed(SeedGenerator.java:117)
    at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.engineGenerateSeed(SecureRandom.java:114)
    at java.security.SecureRandom.generateSeed(SecureRandom.java:495)
    at com.tibco.security.providers.SecurityVendor_j2se.<init>(SecurityVendor_j2se.java:125)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at com.tibco.security.impl.B.C.init(SecurityVendor.java:131)
    - locked <0xffffffff6f53cb28> (a java.lang.Class for com.tibco.security.impl.B.C)
    at com.tibco.security.impl.B.C.init(SecurityVendor.java:85)
    - locked <0xffffffff6f53cb28> (a java.lang.Class for com.tibco.security.impl.B.C)
    at com.tibco.security.impl.B.OOoO.init(CryptoVendor.java:46)
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Cause:
On Linux, SecureRandom reads "/dev/random" which can block.

Resolution

Edit the tibcohost.tra from CONFIG_HOME/tibcohost/Admin-enterpriseName-adminServerName/host/bin/, adding the following argument to java.extended.properties:
-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom

Issue/Introduction

TIBCO Host instance does not start-up on Linux.

Additional Information

Oracle has filed a defect for this issue: http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6521844

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