zekr won't start because of problem with velocity.properties line 120

[Bijan Soleymani]

Binary package hint: zekr

I installed zekr version 0.5.1.dfsg-1.1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 9.10. Trying to run zekr fails, but commenting out the following line in /usr/share/zekr/res/config/lib/velocity.properties solves the problem (line 120):
#velocimacro.library = VM_global_library.vm

Without this change the error output is as follows:
11:38:41 [INFO] (Zekr:65) - System information:
OS info: Linux - 2.6.31-14-generic - i386
JVM info: OpenJDK Runtime Environment - Sun Microsystems Inc. - 1.6.0_0
User info: /home/bijan - /usr/share/zekr - en-CA
Encoding info: UTF-8
11:38:41 [INFO] (Zekr:99) - Starting The Zekr Platform 0.5.1 (Wed Dec 02 11:38:41 EST 2009)
11:38:41 [INFO] (Zekr:99) - Velocity Template Engine for Zekr initialized.
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:143) - [Exception stack trace for "org.apache.velocity.exception.VelocityException: Velocimacro : Error using VM library : VM_global_library.vm"]
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.apache.velocity.runtime.VelocimacroFactory.initVelocimacro(VelocimacroFactory.java:219)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.init(RuntimeInstance.java:261)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeSingleton.init(RuntimeSingleton.java:114)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.init(Velocity.java:79)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.engine.theme.TemplateEngine.<init>(TemplateEngine.java:46)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.engine.theme.TemplateEngine.getInstance(TemplateEngine.java:59)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.common.config.VelocityInputStream.<init>(VelocityInputStream.java:29)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.common.config.ResourceManager.<init>(ResourceManager.java:30)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.common.config.ResourceManager.getInstance(ResourceManager.java:40)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ui.splash.AbstractSplachScreen.<init>(AbstractSplachScreen.java:16)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ui.splash.AdvancedSplashScreen.<init>(AdvancedSplashScreen.java:31)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ZekrMain.startZekr(ZekrMain.java:41)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ZekrMain.main(ZekrMain.java:79)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:148) - [/"org.apache.velocity.exception.VelocityException: Velocimacro : Error using VM library : VM_global_library.vm"]
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:143) - [Exception stack trace for "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null"]
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3761)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3695)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3666)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image.<init>(Image.java:530)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ui.splash.AbstractSplachScreen.<init>(AbstractSplachScreen.java:28)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ui.splash.AdvancedSplashScreen.<init>(AdvancedSplashScreen.java:31)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ZekrMain.startZekr(ZekrMain.java:41)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:146) - net.sf.zekr.ZekrMain.main(ZekrMain.java:79)
11:38:41 [ERROR] (TemplateEngine:148) - [/"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null"]
11:38:41 [INFO] (TemplateEngine:99) - Zekr is now down.

[bing (ingrambj)]

Marked as duplicate of 491906

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package zekr - 0.7.5~beta3+repack-1

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zekr (0.7.5~beta3+repack-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Mohammad Derakhshani ]
  * New upstream release. (Closes: #561730, #561115, #444240)
                          (LP: #267412, #491457, #491906)
    + Works with velocity 1.6 (Closes: #561115)
  * debian/control:
    + Update SWT dependency to 3.5
    + Added sound related java packages to Build-Depends.
    + libjs-jquery added to the Depends field
    + Extended description reviewed.
    + ttf-sil-scheherazade | ttf-kacst (>= 1.6.2+mry-1) | ttf-farsiweb moved
      from Recommends to Depends.
    + Remove java1-runtime from Depends: field since zekr is not compatible
      with java1-runtime.
  * debian/zekr.sh:
    + Added sound related java packages to CLASSPATH
    + Changed VM_ARGS value to "-Xms10m -Xmx80m".
  * Added a patch 03_mozilla_five_home.diff, to set
   'options.browser.useMozilla = true' in res/config/config.properties
  * All relations to ttf-bitstream-vera have been removed (Closes: #461299).
  * “msttcorefonts” is not suggested anymore (Closes: #490031).
  * debian/zekr.links: added a symbolic link to jquery.js from libjs-jquery
  * Added a patch 03_mozilla_five_home.diff, to set
   'options.browser.useMozilla = true' in res/config/config.properties
  * fix LP: #279935: a typo in mangage is fixed.
  * debian/postinst:
    + Index installed Quran translations.

  [ أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) ]
  * Use 3.0 (quilt) source format.
  * Use debhelper 7 instead of cdbs
  * debian/control:
    + Replace java dependencies in Depends with ${java:Depends}
    + Bump xulrunner dependency to 1.9.1
    + Remove browser alternatives from Depends.
    + Bump lucene2 dependency to >= 2.9.0
  * Added build_manifest.diff patch to add Class-Path & Main-Class
    attributes to manifest
  * Added debian/install, debian/docs, debian/README.source
  * Add jogg.jar to class path
  * debian/control: Added Vcs-* headers
  * According to debian/copyright, zekr should be in non-free
  * debian/zekr.sh:
    + Do not define org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath, not
      needed.
    + Pass -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true as an argument to java to
      workaround the problem reported in #560056, this should be removed once
      the bug got fixed.
  * debian/rules: Delete res/images/sura-header.png from orig tarball since
    its license is unknown.
  * Add a free (under same license of the package) sura-header.png
  * A watch file has been added in 0.7.1-3~ppa5 (Closes: #561732).

  [ Mehdi Dogguy ]
  * Set debian-islamic-maintainers as Maintainer and set former
    maintainer as an uploader.
  * Add myself as an uploader.
  * Reformat debian/control so that it becomes easier to read.
  * get-orig-source: Fix a typo 'images' -> 'image'

zekr (0.7.0~beta2-1~ppa4) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Mohammad Derakhshani ]
  * Provide the online recitation files with zekr packages, hence:
    + Added zekr-quran-recitation-online-* to Provides field.
    + Added zekr-quran-recitation-online-* (<< 0.7.0~beta2-1) to Replaces and
      Conflicts fields.

zekr (0.7.0~beta1-3~ppa8) hardy; urgency=low

  * source package produces two...