[moneydance] MD not starting....

[Don Hayward]

Thanks Mark,

I had to "install" Sun JRE in alternatives, but now everything is
working again.

Don

--
Don.Hayward at pomobuli.net

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Mark Derricutt wrote:

> You'll find your machine is now running a different version of java - Open
> Office would have installed GCJ  (hence the gnu.java.awt...  mentioned in
> the stack trace).
>
> I know that Ubuntu has the official JVM available as a .deb but not sure
> about Debian itself?  Try installing the sun-java5-jre package.
>
> Ubuntu (and I think Debian) uses the alternatives system, on my machine:
>
> amrk at moonspell:~$ update-alternatives --list java
> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/java
> /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-3.4
> /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.0
>
> Which shows I have three "alternative versions" of java available, running
> "update-alternatives --config java" will let you select which one is
> actually used.
>
> If you already have the SUN JDK availalble in alternatives, select it.
>
> Failing that, you may have to play PATH hockey in your /etc/profile or
> ~/.profile file.
>
>
> On 8/2/06, Don Hayward <don at pomobuli.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting the following error message in errlog.txt:
>>
>> Unable to start moneydance: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn't
>> load image.
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn't load image.
>>     at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkImage.<init>(
>> lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.7)
>>     at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit.createImage(
>> lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.7)
>>     at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit.getImage(
>> lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.7)
>>     at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(libgcj.so.7)
>>     at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(libgcj.so.7)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MDAction.getIcon(MDAction.java:74)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MDAction.<init>(MDAction.java:30)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.AccountHeaderPanel.<init>(
>> AccountHeaderPanel.java:93)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.AccountPanel.<init>(
>> AccountPanel.java:63)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MainFrame.dataFileOpened(
>> MainFrame.java:370)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MoneydanceGUI.dataFileOpened(
>> MoneydanceGUI.java:1109)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.controller.Main.setCurrentAccount(Main.java
>> :1268)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.controller.Main.startApplication(Main.java
>> :765)
>>     at com.moneydance.apps.md.controller.Main.main(Main.java:196)
>>     at Moneydance.main(Moneydance.java:8)
>>     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.7)
>>     at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)
>>     at com.install4j.runtime.Launcher.main(Unknown Source)
>>
>> I get the Moneydance splash then nothing.
>>
>> I'm running on Linux, Debian etch (testing) ditribution, with the
>> Debian (GNU) java packages.
>>
>> It was working , then I installed OpenOffice which brought the GNU
>> java as a dependency.  I'd like to find how to get MD to run with the
>> GNU java.
>>
>> Any clues appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> --
>> Don.Hayward at pomobuli.net
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