websphere-liberty failing to build under `ibmjava` update to 8.0.8.70

[yosifkit]

There was an update to the ibmjava images to 8.0.8.70 and it is causing build failures in the dependent image rebuilds of websphere-liberty (kernel, 25.0.0.12-kernel-java8-ibmjava, 26.0.0.3-kernel-java8-ibmjava, etc).

I asked the ibmjava maintainers if it points to something wrong with that jre release and their response was "Pls try using java option -XX:-GCContainerHeuristics, which could be added to lib/options.default."

• full log
• Failing step:

#15 [8/9] RUN if [ "true" = "true" ]; then populate_scc.sh; fi     && rm -rf /output/messaging /output/resources/security /logs/* /opt/ibm/wlp/output/.classCache     && chown -R 1001:0 /opt/ibm/wlp/output     && chmod -R g+rwx /opt/ibm/wlp/output
java version "1.8.0_501"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.8.70 - pxa6480sr8fp70-20260702_01(SR8 FP70))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.9, JRE 1.8.0 Linux amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20260629_120631 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9   - c2e231da1bc
OMR      - 573ad5ec7
IBM      - 764a44b)
JCL - 20260619_01 based on Oracle jdk8u501-b08
Unhandled exception
Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x00000000
J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000018 Signal_Number=0000000b Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=00000001
Handler1=00007F031291D340 Handler2=00007F03127DE000 InaccessibleAddress=0000000000000010 Sending_Process=00000010
RDI=00007F030C011030 RSI=00007F0313268E00 RAX=0000000000000000 RBX=0000000000019A00
RCX=0000000020000000 RDX=00007F0313268E08 R8=00007F03127F0D40 R9=000000000000000E
R10=0000000000000000 R11=0000000000000000 R12=00007F0313268E00 R13=00007F030C011030
R14=00007F0312A67500 R15=00007F030C020048
RIP=00007F03115B1FA6 GS=0000 FS=0000 RSP=00007F0313268D40
EFlags=0000000000010202 CS=0033 RBP=00007F0313268E08 ERR=0000000000000004
TRAPNO=000000000000000E OLDMASK=0000000000000000 CR2=0000000000000010
xmm0=0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00)
xmm1=0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00)
xmm2=412e848000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 1.000000e+06)
xmm3=72706d6f632f3436 (f: 1664037888.000000, d: 1.752619e+243)
xmm4=00000000000000ff (f: 255.000000, d: 1.259867e-321)
xmm5=00007f0312628655 (f: 308446816.000000, d: 6.899685e-310)
xmm6=00007f031262865d (f: 308446816.000000, d: 6.899685e-310)
xmm7=00007f03126286eb (f: 308446944.000000, d: 6.899685e-310)
xmm8=0000000000056000 (f: 352256.000000, d: 1.740376e-318)
xmm9=0000000000000003 (f: 3.000000, d: 1.482197e-323)
xmm10=0000000000019890 (f: 104592.000000, d: 5.167531e-319)
xmm11=00000000000197f0 (f: 104432.000000, d: 5.159626e-319)
xmm12=00007f0312348e70 (f: 305434240.000000, d: 6.899684e-310)
xmm13=00007f03123433c0 (f: 305411008.000000, d: 6.899684e-310)
xmm14=0000000000000007 (f: 7.000000, d: 3.458460e-323)
xmm15=00000000000197a8 (f: 104360.000000, d: 5.156069e-319)
Module=/opt/ibm/java/jre/lib/amd64/compressedrefs/libj9shr29.so
Module_base_address=00007F0311593000
Target=2_90_20260629_120631 (Linux 6.12.96+deb13-cloud-amd64)
CPU=amd64 (8 logical CPUs) (0x3d62df000 RAM)
----------- Stack Backtrace -----------
generateStartupHintsKey+0x16 (0x00007F03115B1FA6 [libj9shr29.so+0x1efa6])
j9shr_findGCHints+0xd8 (0x00007F03115B2288 [libj9shr29.so+0x1f288])
j9gc_storeGCHints+0x443 (0x00007F03117314C3 [libj9gc29.so+0x504c3])
J9VMDllMain+0x6d (0x00007F0311708B0D [libj9gc29.so+0x27b0d])
runShutdownStage.constprop.0+0x187 (0x00007F0312930647 [libj9vm29.so+0xbf647])
freeJavaVM+0x2dc (0x00007F031293149C [libj9vm29.so+0xc049c])
protectedDestroyJavaVM+0x538 (0x00007F0312929908 [libj9vm29.so+0xb8908])
omrsig_protect+0x20d (0x00007F03127DEDAD [libj9prt29.so+0x28dad])
DestroyJavaVM+0x15e (0x00007F03129288DE [libj9vm29.so+0xb78de])
DestroyJavaVM+0x1a (0x00007F0312A3DD2A [libjvm.so+0xed2a])
JavaMain+0x654 (0x00007F03135AFFE4 [libjli.so+0x10fe4])
 (0x00007F0313405AC3 [libc.so.6+0x94ac3])
clone+0x44 (0x00007F0313496A84 [libc.so.6+0x125a84])
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JVMDUMP039I Processing dump event "gpf", detail "" at 2026/07/28 21:10:52 - please wait.
JVMDUMP056I Processed dump event "gpf", detail "" at 2026/07/28 21:10:52 (0.001 seconds).