bootchart dies with stack trace in 9.10

[Andrey Lebedev]

Binary package hint: bootchart

After upgrade from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 bootchart stopped to produce png images to /var/log/bootchart. In fact it creates 0 byte .png files instead of rendered charts.

When I run bootchart manually:

  $ bootchart -f png '/var/log/bootchart/kednote-karmic-20091018-2.tgz'

I get the exception printed after about 7 minutes of work:

Parsing /var/log/bootchart/kednote-karmic-20091018-2.tgz
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libgtkpeer: libgtkpeer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
   at java.lang.Runtime._load(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.10)
   at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.CairoGraphics2D.<clinit>(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.10)
   at gnu.java.awt.peer.headless.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.createGraphics(libgcj.so.10)
   at org.bootchart.renderer.ImageRenderer.render(Unknown Source)
   at org.bootchart.renderer.PNGRenderer.render(Unknown Source)
   at org.bootchart.Main.render(Unknown Source)
   at org.bootchart.Main.main(Unknown Source)

If I choose to render svg image (by omitting -f png) flag, chart is rendered correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 19 00:51:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: bootchart 0.90.2-3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: bootchart
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Andrey Lebedev (andrey-lebedev)]

Have to mention, that after upgrade, the default jvm became gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.4.1. When I switched it back to sun java 6 with

  $ sudo update-alternatives --config java

Problem gets fixed and bootchart is run for about 15 seconds instead of 7 minutes with gij.

[cougarten (5p4m0r)]

Same to me, but it worked once.
My error (for png) is a bit shorter and none of the formats work:

Parsing /var/log/bootchart/User-karmic-20091028-1.tgz
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
 at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(DataBufferInt.java:41)
 at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Raster.java:458)
 at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(DirectColorModel.java:1015)
 at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(BufferedImage.java:321)
 at org.bootchart.renderer.ImageRenderer.render(Unknown Source)
 at org.bootchart.renderer.PNGRenderer.render(Unknown Source)
 at org.bootchart.Main.render(Unknown Source)
 at org.bootchart.Main.main(Unknown Source)

[cougarten (5p4m0r)]

appart from a longer bootime the bootlogs are also bigger:
the tgz files are now (karmic) between 1.3 and 2.8MB instead of 200 to 280KB (jaunty)

[Chad Miller (cmiller)]

--- /usr/bin/bootchart 2009-12-11 10:31:04.900595872 -0500
+++ /usr/bin/bootchart-fixed 2009-12-11 10:30:57.584097720 -0500
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 CLASSPATH="/usr/share/bootchart/bootchart.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-compress.jar"
 PROPERTY="java.awt.headless=true"

-exec java -D"$PROPERTY" -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $MAIN_CLASS "$@"
+exec java -Xms128m -Xmx256m -D"$PROPERTY" -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $MAIN_CLASS "$@"

[Maxime R. (max.r)]

I had the same problem : 0 byte png bootcharts since the 9.04 -> 9.10 update.

$ bootchart -f png /var/log/bootchart/some_log.tgz
gave me the same error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libgtkpeer: libgtkpeer.so: etc....
after ~20 min of 100% cpu usage (old pentium M 1,6GHz)

I have installed openjdk-6-jre and selected it using :
 $ sudo update-alternatives --config java
(I have used gij-4.4 until then)

Now:
$ bootchart -f png /var/log/bootchart/some_log.tgz
works and produce the png bootchart in ~50 s