Visolate crashes by just launching

[Traumflug]

Steps to reproduce:

$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install visolate
$ visolate

This results in:

$ visolate
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/cli/ParseException
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(java.base@9-internal/Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(java.base@9-internal/Class.java:2937)
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetMethodRecursive(java.base@9-internal/Class.java:3282)
 at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(java.base@9-internal/Class.java:3252)
 at java.lang.Class.getMethod(java.base@9-internal/Class.java:1961)
 at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.validateMainClass(java.base@9-internal/LauncherHelper.java:648)
 at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(java.base@9-internal/LauncherHelper.java:499)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException
 at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@9-internal/BuiltinClassLoader.java:366)
 at jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@9-internal/ClassLoaders.java:184)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@9-internal/ClassLoader.java:419)
 ... 7 more

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: visolate 2.1.6~svn8+dfsg1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-25.44-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 30 16:24:13 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-04 (57 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: visolate
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[chrysn (chrysn)]

to make sure what provides java at your machine, please give me the output of `java -version`.

[Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)]

$ java -version
openjdk version "9-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src, mixed mode)

[Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)]

I tried with OpenJDK 8, too, same result.

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)

However, looking at bug #1597769, the JAR packages provided in the Github repository version 3.0.1, version 3.1 and version 3.1.1 do work with OpenJDK 8, so upgrading would be a solution for this bug.

[Florin Gherendi (florin-gf)]

It's just another problem in the 16.04 LTS distribution, among many other... It shouldn't have been named LTS, nobody ever answers to support requests and it's far from being stable. Why in the world they put visolate version 2.1.6 in the repository together with OpenJDK 8 as long as they are known not to work together?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)]

One way to fix the issue is to use Visolate latest release, 3.1.1: https://github.com/Traumflug/Visolate/tree/master/releases

Just download the release file and run it with

  java -jar visolate-3.1.1.jar

No package installation other than the Java packages required.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

The fix is upgrading this package to one of those versions that work.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Also it seems necessary to look if the package dependency on OpenJDK is well defined. Otherwise this bug won't be taking place.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for visolate (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for One Hundred Papercuts because there has been no activity for 60 days.]