IBM Notes 9 versus Fedora 26

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Recently I decided to upgrade system with new Fedora 26, but came across on segmentation fault problem running IBM Notes 9 (mail software).
When start you can see authentication dialog and you can try login but it will never finish loading. Also IBM Notes process starts and crashes in several seconds with "unhandled exception".

Root cause


IBM JRE 1.6, which provided with IBM Notes doesn't wotk with Fedora 26.
I have checked up to IBM JRE SR16FP45 - it also does not work.

Resolution 

 
chmod +x ibm-java-jre-8.0-4.10-i386-archive.bin
./ibm-java-jre-8.0-4.10-i386-archive.bin
#untar to /tmp/ibm-java-jre-8.0 
  • Replace content of /opt/ibm/notes/jvm
mv /opt/ibm/notes/jvm /opt/ibm/notes/jvm2
cp /tmp/ibm-java-jre-8.0/jre /opt/ibm/notes/jvm
  • IBM Notes should start

What Else

I have tried to update IBM Notes, but this does not help, anyway following step can be required to start IBM Notes with JRE 1.8:
  • Reinstall IBM Notes 9.0.0 to 9.0.1: 
# package NOTES_9.0.1_LINUX_RPM_EN.tar
yum localinstall ibm_notes-9.0.1.i586.rpm
yum localinstall ibm_sametime-9.0.1.i586.rpm
  • Update up to IBM Notes 9.0.1 FP7
  • Update with IBM Notes 9.0.1 FP7 IF1
  • There is no some GTK-libraries, so IBM Notes generates warnings without them. Install:
yum install libcanberra-gtk3.i686
yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i686
yum install PackageKit-gtk3-module.i686
yum install adwaita-gtk2-theme.i686

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