pdfsam crashes at launch on Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
pdfsam (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
|||
pdfsam (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
1. Have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed (desktop really does not matter, but tested on MATE, LXDE and GNOME)
2. Install PDFSaM with `sudo apt-get install pdfsam`
3. Try to launch it from terminal with `pdfsam`
Expected results:
* PDFSaM launches normally
Actual results:
* PDFSaM crashes with the following messages in the termina:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
at org.pdfsam.
Caused by: java.lang.
at java.base/
at java.base/
at java.base/
... 10 more
Note: problem also seen on AskUbuntu ( https:/
summary: |
- pdfsam crashes at launch (MATE 18.04) + pdfsam crashes at launch on Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS |
description: | updated |
affects: | openjdk-11 (Ubuntu) → openjdk-lts (Ubuntu) |
Changed in pdfsam (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in pdfsam (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Looks like the issue is known on github.
This comment contains a workaround: /github. com/torakiki/ pdfsam/ issues/ 220#issuecommen t-386129933
https:/
Has to do with the default java version being used. pdfsam expects 8 but default is 11.