On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 14:50, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 12/10/2020 13:53, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > On 12/10/2020 12:49, Mark Thomas wrote:
> >> On 12/10/2020 12:19, Peter Henderson wrote:
> >>> Hello fellow tomcat users.
> >>>
> >>> My environment.
> >>> Tomcat: 9.0.39
> >>> Java: openjdk 11.0.8 2020-07-14
> >>> OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
> >>>
> >>> Source code [0]
> >>>
> >>> When deploying this war [1], by copying it into the webapps directory,
> >>> I get this exception. [2]
> >>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Negative time
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I only started seeing this exception when I upgraded my projects build
> tool
> >>> version
> >>> from
> >>> sbt.version=1.3.10
> >>> to
> >>> sbt.version=1.4.0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is this a tomcat bug, a build tool bug or most likely something I'm
> doing
> >>> wrong?
> >>
> >> Looks like an issue with the dates of files in the WAR.
> >>
> >> If you look at the dates of the files in the WAR nearly all of them are
> >> in the future (07 Feb 2106, 06:28).
> >>
> >> It looks like something is overflowing but a Java long shouldn't do
> that.
> >>
> >> Need to dig into exactly what is going on as this looks like it should
> >> work - even if the WAR contains files created almost a century in the
> >> future.
> >
> > Hmm. I see the 2106 date on the file system and with Java 8 but with
> > Java 11 I see 1969-dec-31 23:00 which gives -3600000 which triggers the
> > exception.
> >
> > The root cause appears to be in the JRE at this point. Whether it is in
> > the JRE used to create the WAR or the JRE reading the WAR is TBD.
> >
> > I think I am going to have to look at the raw bytes and the zip file
> > spec to figure out where the root cause is.
>
> That was fun.
>
> Per the zip spec, the last modified time on those files is:
>
> 1969-Dec-31 23:00:00 UTC
>
> i.e. 1 hour before the Epoch at 1970-Jan-01 00:00:00 UTC
>
> It is stored as a signed 32-bit int (FFFFF1F0) which is -3600 (zip
> timestamps are in seconds since the Epoch).
>
> Java 8 reads this incorrectly as an unsigned int (4294963696) which,
> when taken as seconds since Epoch, gives 2016-Feb-07 05:28:16 UTC.
>
> (Incidently the archiver that ships with Ubuntu appears to make the same
> error)
>
> Java 11 reads this correctly but Java does not let you set times before
> the Epoch so the exception is triggered.
>
> The short version is that the modification times of the files in the WAR
> are being set to "1969-Dec-31 23:00:00 UTC" which Java doesn't like.
>
> Tomcat could handle this more gracefully but the end result will be the
> same - the WAR isn't going to deploy. I'm not convinced it is worth
> doing anything here.
>
> It looks like the fix will be somewhere in the build system used to
> create the WAR.
>

Thanks for digging into this.

For anyone else who runs into this.

When upgrading to sbt >= 1.4.0
An environment variable needs to be set
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
[0]

I suspect the bug is in [1] with the orElse(0L) start of epoch looks
familiar.


[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/
[1]
https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/5344/commits/1d0a41520071c2fcf694d6b68e4b5e7721f7c321

Peter.






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