bazel: java 1.8.0_162: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name com.google.errorprone.errors, locale en_US

Description of the problem / feature request:

On OSX, with java 1.8.0_162-b12 from Oracle, running bazel 0.9.0 -without-jdk installed via self-extractor or homebrew fails with an error. Earlier Java update versions work fine (e.g. u131). Bazel 0.9.0 with bundled JDK also works fine.

Error:

(09:04:29) ERROR: /Volumes/code/redfin/main/redfin.core.enums/BUILD:4:1: Building redfin.core.enums/libredfin.core.enums.jar (533 source files) failed (Exit 1): java failed: error executing command
  (cd /private/var/tmp/_bazel_robert.gay/69746c6b963d631c63554f7e842731c0/execroot/redfin_main && \
  exec env - \
    LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 \
  external/local_jdk/bin/java -XX:+TieredCompilation '-XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1' -Xbootclasspath/p:external/bazel_tools/third_party/java/jdk/langtools/javac-9-dev-r4023-3.jar -jar external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/JavaBuilder_deploy.jar @bazel-out/darwin-fastbuild/bin/redfin.core.enums/libredfin.core.enums.jar-2.params)
java.lang.InternalError: Cannot find requested resource bundle for locale en_US
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.getBundles(JavacMessages.java:128)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.getLocalizedString(JavacMessages.java:147)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.getLocalizedString(JavacMessages.java:140)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.Log.localize(Log.java:788)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.Log.printLines(Log.java:586)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.handleExceptions(JavacTaskImpl.java:170)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.doCall(JavacTaskImpl.java:96)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.call(JavacTaskImpl.java:90)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.javac.BlazeJavacMain.compile(BlazeJavacMain.java:107)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.SimpleJavaLibraryBuilder$1.invokeJavac(SimpleJavaLibraryBuilder.java:105)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.ReducedClasspathJavaLibraryBuilder.compileSources(ReducedClasspathJavaLibraryBuilder.java:54)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.SimpleJavaLibraryBuilder.compileJavaLibrary(SimpleJavaLibraryBuilder.java:108)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.SimpleJavaLibraryBuilder.run(SimpleJavaLibraryBuilder.java:116)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.BazelJavaBuilder.processRequest(BazelJavaBuilder.java:105)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.BazelJavaBuilder.runPersistentWorker(BazelJavaBuilder.java:67)
        at com.google.devtools.build.buildjar.BazelJavaBuilder.main(BazelJavaBuilder.java:45)
Caused by: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name com.google.errorprone.errors, locale en_US
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:1573)
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1396)
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:854)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.lambda$add$0(JavacMessages.java:106)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.getBundles(JavacMessages.java:125)
        ... 15 more

• Install bazel 0.9.0-without-jdk, or via homebrew
• Install Java 1.8_162
• Set JAVA_HOME to 1.8_162
• bazel shutdown (just to ensure bazel is started w/ Java 1.8_162 in the next step)
• bazel build <any java_* target> fails with the above error.

bazel shutdown + switching JAVA_HOME back to an earlier Java update + bazel build will succeed.

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

OSX Sierra

What’s the output of bazel info release?

release 0.9.0

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

Nothing obviously relevant to bazel