rpm -q jenkins
jenkins-1.489-1.1.noarch

I used the yum installer to install jenkins on ppc64 with the IBM 1.6 JDK following the guide here:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+RedHat+distributions

When starting the jenkins service, I get this:

service jenkins start
Starting Jenkins Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:60)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)
at Main._main(Main.java:129)
at Main.main(Main.java:98)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: jnidispatch (/com/sun/jna/linux-ppc64/libjnidispatch.so) not found in resource path
at com.sun.jna.Native.loadNativeLibraryFromJar(Native.java:697)
at com.sun.jna.Native.loadNativeLibrary(Native.java:674)
at com.sun.jna.Native.<clinit>(Native.java:115)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:200)
at com.sun.akuma.CLibrary.<clinit>(CLibrary.java:89)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:200)
at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.resolvePID(JavaVMArguments.java:126)
at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.ofLinux(JavaVMArguments.java:114)
at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.of(JavaVMArguments.java:104)
at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.current(JavaVMArguments.java:92)
at com.sun.akuma.Daemon.daemonize(Daemon.java:105)
at com.sun.akuma.Daemon.all(Daemon.java:87)
... 6 more

I don't know how this is different from issue 4820 which was fixed apparently:

https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-4820

But where people say updating jenkins fixed that issue, I'm still hitting it. I'm not sure if there is a problem with my java setup or not.