OpenOffice can not find JRE (sun 1.6)

[Gregg]

Running on Feisty :
2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Java JDK sun 1.6.0 installed :

$update-alternatives --list java
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Java is working fine in Firefox : http://www.java.com/fr/download/help/testvm.xml

When I tried configure in OpenOffice the JRE (tools>Options>Openoffice.org>java) with the JRE path I find in the "Sun java Plugin control Panel" : /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

It does not want to add it, and say it does not contain a JRE.

I tried to do this : $sudo update-alternatives --config java
and it tell me :

"There is only one Software providing Java (/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java).
Nothing to Configure"

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

works for me; sun-java6 is automatically detected by OOo without anything to configure.

[hda (hda)]

same her on Gutsy. When calling Tools->Options->Java in OpenOffice an error is reported to STDOUT:

[Java framework] Invalid value for bootstrap variable: UNO_JAVA_JFW_VENDOR_SETTINGS

[jontxo (reincigarcia)]

I also have this problem runing gutsy. When I run openoffice from the command line I get the same error trying to select a jre in Tools->Options->Java. Googling a bit I have discovered that the error is caused by the absence of the file javavendors.xml. I have tried to use the file that comes with the 2.2 release of openoffice but I get another error.
 [Java framework] Error in function findPlugin (fwkutil.cxx).

[darren (darrenm)]

Another one with this problem. In Gutsy OO can't find the JRE. I have various versions installed but it won't allow me to select any of them.

[Frank (frank-schaeffer)]

Can confirm too.
On Gutsy 64bit I get the error message below if I open a terminal and type "openoffice" select options->java->add->"try to selecting /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jvm/bin/java"

[Java framework] Error in function findPlugin (fwkutil.cxx)
The java-file in ...... /jvm/bin/ is already there but cannot seen at the file manager within openoffice option-java-add-menu

@jontxo
I could find the javavendors.xml file at /usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/javavendors.xml. It seems to be ok. I tried to change the min max selection for the sun item and try again to select java within openoffice but nothing changed.

[Frank (frank-schaeffer)]

Latest java update doesn't change anything. OpenOffice doesn't recognize sun's java 6. Error message is the same as described above

[[e-mail] (yon-cuadrado)]

For me it's solved with the last version of openoffice.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for openoffice.org (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Russel Winder (russel)]

I have just upgraded to Hardy and am trying to use OpenOffice.org 2.4 to write fodt or DocBook/XML files. This failes with the error message:

[Java framework]sunjavaplugin.so could not load Java runtime library:
file:///usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so.

However the file is patently there:

|> ll /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5355014 2008-03-25 09:01 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so

When I go to the OpenOffice.org options menu and look at the java entry after a while the Sun Microsystems inc. entry appears but not selected. If I select it and click OK then it appears still not selected. It always appears after a while deselected.

It seems then that there is no way for me to bind this instance of OpenOffice.org to the JVM, which appears to make OpenOffice.org unusable for anything except odt files.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

Note though the subte error o1.6.0.03 vs 1.6.0.06, it seems OpenOffice.org is hardwired to look for the Gutsy version of the JVM whereas Hardy has a more recent version of the JVM.

[Valerii Hiora (valerii-hiora)]

Seems to be the same problem as described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/218692/comments/3

[Russel Winder (russel)]

Don't think so, my systems all have openoffice.org-java-common installed.

[Wayne Merry (waynemerry)]

I also noticed this subtle difference between x.03 and x.06, and this too was preventing macros running in open office calc 2.4 under Ubuntu 8.04. I created a link in /usr/lib/jvm from java-6-sun-1.6.0.03 to java-6-sun-1.6.0.06 using nautilus as root, and wella, everything works. If open office is fixed to look in the wrong places - this would help. Why can't it use the general java-6-sun link?