grinvin crashes before loading workspace

[Narayanan N]

Binary package hint: grinvin

This bug seems to have been for there for some time now. I could not find any report searching the launchpad with grinvin.

The problem seems to be with incompatibility of java version. If I download the grinvin from the homepage that includes JRE, it works. The latest version released in august supports the later version of Java.

Exception in thread "main" be.ugent.caagt.swirl.menus.MenuConfigurationException: Could not read menu configuration file
        at be.ugent.caagt.swirl.menus.MenuBuilder.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.gred.GraphEditor.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.gred.GraphEditor.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.gred.GraphEditor.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.workspace.EditorWindowWrapper.loadAll(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.workspace.EditorWindowWrapper.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.workspace.EditorWindowWrapper.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.workspace.WindowSubsystem.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.io.WorkspaceLoader.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.io.WorkspaceLoader.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.grinvin.Grinvin.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:617)
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:480)
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:429)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknow at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:518)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:865)
        at be.ugent.caagt.swirl.menus.ConfigurationLoader.load(Unknown Source)
        at be.ugent.caagt.swirl.menus.ConfigurationLoader.load(Unknown Source)
        ... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:522)
        ... 28 more
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: grinvin 1.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 9 09:36:34 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grinvin

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue and making Ubuntu better!

I got the same error message when attempting to run grinvin on Ubuntu Natty.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

With grinvin 1.2-2 on Ubuntu Raring I get a different error message, but it still doesn't start so I'm adding it here rather than opening a new bug report:
$ grinvin
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.13)
   at org.grinvin.graphs.GraphURI.load(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.getGraphListElement(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.getGraphListElement(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.load(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.load(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.loadGroups(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.processStandardGraphNodes(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.list.graphs.GraphListElementManager.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.13)
   at org.grinvin.Grinvin.loadContents(Unknown Source)
   at org.grinvin.Grinvin.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
   at java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(libgcj.so.13)
   at java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(libgcj.so.13)
   at org.grinvin.io.graphs.GraphBundleLoader.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.13)
   ...12 more

Furthermore, I note that the package seem to have been removed from Debian http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grinvin.html