Latest updates break Java (Swing?)
I have something odd going on with my system. It's an Ultra 20 running the latest version of Solaris (6/06). I've been keeping it up to date with SUC, and the other night (9/12) there were some new patches. The only one I remember was a large update of the Xorg package (it was several megabytes). I installed the updates and everything went all right, but then last night I downloaded the latest NetBeans and the installer failed, giving me a Java exception (something about failed to create a font handle). I have previously installed other versions of this software, and never had any problems. And the kicker is, I tried to fire up SUC to see which patches I had loaded and maybe back them out to see if that fixed the problem -- and it won't run either!
Has anyone else run into this, and do you know of a solution? I don't mind backing out patches, or even reinstalling Java if I have to, but I'd like to know if someone has something that works before spending hours shotgunning the issue.
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tmnelson] at [2007-11-26 10:09:34]
# 2
The stack trace is:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: getCreatedFontHandle
at sun.font.FontManager.getCreatedFontHandle(Native Method)
at sun.font.FontManager.setSameHandle(FontManager.java:429)
at javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource.<init>(FontUIResource.java:42)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.DefaultMetalTheme$FontDelegate.getFont(DefaultMetalTheme .java:230)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.DefaultMetalTheme.getFont(DefaultMetalTheme.java:184)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.DefaultMetalTheme.getMenuTextFont(DefaultMetalTheme.java :172)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel$FontActiveValue.createValue(MetalLookAn dFeel.java:1687)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(UIDefaults.java:200)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(UIDefaults.java:130)
at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(MultiUIDefaults.java:44)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFont(UIDefaults.java:350)
at javax.swing.UIManager.getFont(UIManager.java:567)
at javax.swing.LookAndFeel.installColorsAndFont(LookAndFeel.java:89)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuBarUI.installDefaults(BasicMenuBarUI.java:70)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuBarUI.installUI(BasicMenuBarUI.java:56)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalMenuBarUI.installUI(MetalMenuBarUI.java:48)
at javax.swing.JComponent.setUI(JComponent.java:652)
at javax.swing.JMenuBar.setUI(JMenuBar.java:113)
at javax.swing.JMenuBar.updateUI(JMenuBar.java:122)
at javax.swing.JMenuBar.<init>(JMenuBar.java:90)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.foundation.swing.GenericMenuBar.<init>(GenericMenu Bar.java:22)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.MenuBarBuilder.createMenuBar(MenuBarBuilder.java:40)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.UpdateFrame.<init>(UpdateFrame.java:52)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.Application.getUpdateFrame(Application.java:208)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.Application.<init>(Application.java:188)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.Application.main(Application.java:108)
Would a patch have removed some fonts? That sounds really odd.
# 7
I'm guessing it's either in libmawt.so or libfontmanager.so. ldd(1) didn't reveal a getCreatedFontHandle symbol, but I did get a message that it couldn't find AWTgetFont or something like that. Not that that necessarily means anything, I didn't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include all the Java shared libs.
Anyway, it seems to have healed itself: I downloaded JDK1.5.0_08 and installed it in a temp directory. When I set JAVA_HOME to that directory, I got the same error, but then I copied it to /usr/jdk1.5.0_08 and symlinked /usr/java to it, and now update manager and netbeans installer work. Freaky. I'm going to try symlinking back to my old JDK, and I wouldn't be surprised if that started working again. If it doesn't, I'll try to dig around and see if I can figure out why not, but for the moment at least I'm no longer dead in the water.
Thanks everyone for your help, information and suggestions!
