Bug#804178: freemind: Freemind hangs with splash screen on startup

[Alan]

Package: freemind
Version: 0.9.0+dfsg2-1
Severity: normal

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Trying to start freemind from the desktop icon, it hangs forever showing the
splash screen.

Starting if from the terminal put up the splash screen and then output "Checking
Java Version..." on the terminal.  It then hung


-- Package-specific info:
[debug] /usr/bin/freemind: Found JAVA_HOME = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64'
[debug] /usr/bin/freemind: Found JAVA_CMD = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java'
DEBUG:   Freemind parameters are ''.
DEBUG:   Linux kanga 4.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.2.5-1 (2015-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
DEBUG:   Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
Release:	testing
Codename:	stretch
DEBUG:   The following DEB packages are installed:
ii  freemind                    0.9.0+dfsg2-1      all                Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps
DEBUG:   Link '/usr/bin/freemind' resolved to '/usr/share/freemind/freemind.sh'.
DEBUG:   Freemind Directory is '/usr/share/freemind'.
DEBUG:   Calling: '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D -Dfreemind.base.dir=/usr/share/freemind -cp ::/usr/share/freemind/lib/freemind.jar:/usr/share/java/SimplyHTML.jar:/usr/share/java/gnu-regexp.jar:/usr/share/java/jibx-run-1.1.6a.jar:/usr/share/java/xpp3.jar:/usr/share/freemind/lib/bindings.jar:/usr/share/java/forms.jar:/usr/share/freemind freemind.main.FreeMindStarter  '.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages freemind depends on:
ii  default-jre             2:1.7-52.1
ii  libjgoodies-forms-java  1.6.0-4
ii  libjibx1.1-java         1.1.6a-4
ii  simplyhtml              0.16.08-1

Versions of packages freemind recommends:
pn  freemind-doc   <none>
ii  java-wrappers  0.1.28
ii  xdg-utils      1.1.1-1

Versions of packages freemind suggests:
pn  freemind-browser         <none>
pn  freemind-plugins-help    <none>
pn  freemind-plugins-script  <none>
pn  freemind-plugins-svg     <none>

-- no debconf information