jvisualvm just throws an NPE on starting any java application

[Nonconventionally Creative]

Binary package hint: visualvm

Ubuntu 9.04
visualvm 0.20080728-1ubuntu2
Expected: running jvisualvm at the same time as a java application will allow profiling of the application.
Actual: instead of showing running java applications, the openjdk version of jvisualvm just displays a message with an NPE when a java program is started, or if the java application is started first, on startup. In addition, jvisualvm's own task appears as <Unknown Application>

the sun jdk jvisualvm in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/bin/ shows running java tasks properly, even with update-java-alternatives set to openjdk

in addition, as a feature request, jvisualvm should be added to the rest of the stufff instead of providing nothing for sun's and symlinking /usr/bin/jvisualvm to ../lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/jvisualvm

Attached is the full log, for the error, grep -A 17 SEVERE messages.log
Edit: okay, my paranoia about not including my username in the log has proven useless given how I pasted the filepath to be helpful.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this reproducible in Lucid's version (1.2.1)?

[Nonconventionally Creative (br-longbons)]

It is fixed in 1.2.1-0ubuntu3 (in a debootstrap chroot).
Fixed upstream with note:
https://visualvm.dev.java.net/troubleshooting.html#jvmstat6u12