rhino does not start due to a NoClassDefFoundErr

[Marco Fabbri]

Binary package hint: rhino

Entering the command rhino on a console produce the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/mozilla/javascript/tools/shell/Main

The js.jar rhino archive in /usr/share/java is lacking the tools subdir. The archive seems not to have been produced by the "jar" target of the ant build file.

[Sébastien Pierre (sebastien-type-z)]

I have the same error when running 'rhino' and 'rhino-jsc'

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main not found in java.lang.ClassLoader$1{urls=[file:/usr/share/java/js.jar], parent=null}
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass (URLClassLoader.java:870)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:359)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader$1.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:1333)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:310)
   at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main (VirtualMachine.java:99)

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mozilla.javascript.tools.jsc.Main not found in java.lang.ClassLoader$1{urls=[file:/usr/share/java/./,file:/usr/share/java/js.jar], parent=null}
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass (URLClassLoader.java:870)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:359)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader$1.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:1333)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:310)
   at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main (VirtualMachine.java:99)

I'm using SableVM as virtual machine:

ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-06-02 12:08 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/bin/java-sablevm

[Marco Fabbri (mrfabbri)]

As a temporary workaround, in the meanwhile the bug gets fixed, I downloaded the Rhino 1.6R5 realease from the official site (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html) and replaced the js-1.6R5.jar in /usr/share/java with the js.jar from the official realease.

[CL (christian-lawrence-deactivatedaccount)]

I believe this to be a dup of #93885