[FLINK-25122] flink-dist/src/main/flink-bin/bin/flink does not expand variable for FLINK_ENV_JAVA_OPTS

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.14.0, 1.12.5
• Component/s: Command Line Client
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: L Z
• Created: 01/Dec/21 05:19
• Updated: 20/Aug/22 22:37

Description

According to the suggestion on https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/ops/debugging/application_profiling/ or https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/ops/debugging/application_profiling.html 

after adding

env.java.opts: "-Xloggc:${FLINK_LOG_PREFIX}.gc.log <...omitted chars...>"

to flink-conf.yaml.

flink CLI `./bin/flink run <omitted opts>` fails with

Invalid file name for use with -Xloggc: Filename can only contain the characters [A-Z][a-z][0-9]-_.%[p|t] but it has been ${FLINK_LOG_PREFIX}.gc.log Note %p or %t can only be used once Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17970
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17979