[Bug]: openvox-server 7.18.1 fails to start

[silug]

Is this a critical security issue?

• This is not a security issue.

Describe the Bug

The puppetserver service fails to start with the following error:

com/puppetlabs/puppetserver/JRubyPuppetResponse has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0

Expected Behavior

puppetserver service starts

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install openvox-server-7.18.1-1.el9
2. systemctl enable --now puppetserver.service

Environment

Version: 7.18.1-1.el9
Platform: AlmaLinux 9.5

Additional Context

No response

Relevant log output

[nmburgan]

What Java version are you using?

[nmburgan]

I think class file version 52 is Java 8, and 55 is Java 11. It is now compiled against Java 11. If you must use Java 8, we can probably change the build to use that instead.

[nmburgan]

Looks like Java 8 support was dropped for puppetserver as well in 7.x
https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/server/install_from_packages#java-support

[silug]

The package requires java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless, so that's what it was using.

[silug]

I think class file version 52 is Java 8, and 55 is Java 11. It is now compiled against Java 11. If you must use Java 8, we can probably change the build to use that instead.

So based on that, the package dependency should be updated from java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless to java-11-openjdk-headless?

[silug]

@nmburgan it looks like the following change to ezbake is needed:

diff --git a/resources/puppetlabs/lein-ezbake/template/global/ext/fpm.rb b/resources/puppetlabs/lein-ezbake/template/global/ext/fpm.rb
index e2339f7..a8a116a 100755
--- a/resources/puppetlabs/lein-ezbake/template/global/ext/fpm.rb
+++ b/resources/puppetlabs/lein-ezbake/template/global/ext/fpm.rb
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ if options.output_type == 'rpm'
             fail "Unrecognized el os version #{options.os_version}"
           end
         when 7
-          'java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless'
+          'java-11-openjdk-headless'
         else
           fail "Unknown Puppet Platform Version #{options.platform_version}"
         end

If that looks right, I'm happy to put in a PR.

[nmburgan]

Ah yes, you're right! In fact, I'd probably just remove the platform versioning switch and make 11 or 17 for everything. If we drop 11 for openvox 9, we can add more logic back if we have to.