Bug#890905: jabref: does not launch

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:13:46 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote:

> I just clicked the jabref icon, from the KDE applications launch
> menu and also tried just plain typing jabref in a terminal.
> 
> After clicking the icon, a temporary widget on the lower panel
> showed up, but then vanished and jabref's gui never was spawned.
> After the command line trial, the following message arose:
>
> 10:00:18.907 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR net.sf.jabref.FallbackExceptionHandler - Uncaught exception Occurred in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException
>         at net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.ImportFormatReader.resetImportFormats(ImportFormatReader.java:56) ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?]
>         at net.sf.jabref.JabRefMain.start(JabRefMain.java:78) ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?]
>         at net.sf.jabref.JabRefMain.lambda$main$0(JabRefMain.java:40) ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?]
>         at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313) ~[?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:764) ~[?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97) ~[?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:717) ~[?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:711) ~[?:?]
>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:?]
>         at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89) ~[?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:734) ~[?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:199) [?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124) [?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113) [?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109) [?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101) [?:?]
>         at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90) [?:?]
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
>         at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:582) ~[?:?]
>         at jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:185) ~[?:?]
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496) ~[?:?]
>         ... 17 more

Thanks for your bug report. This is indeed not the expected outcome
:)

As JabRef still works for me, we need to find out what's different
for you.
 
> ii  openjdk-8-jre [java8-runtime]     8u151-b12-1
> ii  openjdk-9-jre [java8-runtime]     9.0.1+11-1
> ii  oracle-java8-jdk [java8-runtime]  8u11

> ii  openjdk-8-jdk:amd64                   8u151-b12-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
> ii  openjdk-8-jdk-headless:amd64          8u151-b12-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) (headless)
> ii  openjdk-8-jre:amd64                   8u151-b12-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
> ii  openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64          8u151-b12-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
> ii  openjdk-9-jdk:amd64                   9.0.1+11-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
> ii  openjdk-9-jdk-headless:amd64          9.0.1+11-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) (headless)
> ii  openjdk-9-jre:amd64                   9.0.1+11-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
> ii  openjdk-9-jre-headless:amd64          9.0.1+11-1 amd64                   OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)

> java - auto mode
>   link best version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
>   link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
>   link java is /usr/bin/java
>   slave java.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java - priority 1081
>   slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/java - priority 1091
>   slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/man/man1/java.1.gz
> /usr/lib/jvm/oracle-java8-jdk-amd64/jre/bin/java - priority 318
>   slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/oracle-java8-jdk-amd64/man/man1/java.1.gz

This looks like you're using openjdk-9 for running JabRef.

Could you please try:

DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 jabref --debug

DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/ jabref --debug

DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/ jabref --debug


Cheers,
gregor


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