Spark does not start on Ubuntu 13.10 64Bit

nico5 · October 25, 2013, 9:30am

I do not get any error or other things i could report, i do only get no Spark.

Jason60 · October 25, 2013, 10:32pm

check that you have java installed on your system, and that the startup shell scripts are executable/non-modified.

I’m wondering if the latest noobuntu… uh, I mean Ubuntu (hehe ) is using Mir? I think Canonical is pushing Mir for some bizzare reason (instead of Wayland)… and it’s possible the current versions of Java Swing and AWT are expecting X11 instead (and Mir doesn’t have some interface to capture the X11 calls and handle them appropriately).

If so, there wouldn’t be much we could do since this would be a bug in Mir imho, not Java since any new windowing environment should retain backwards compatibility at least to some extent.

Can others test the latest Ubuntu release and possibly confirm?

@Nico perhaps try a “fallback” mode if there is one to fallback to X11 or something and try running Spark again. Also dig around for some logs from Spark… at the very least it should be genearteing a large stacktrace when it refuses to startup (check in ~/.Spark/logs/ )

Jason60 · October 25, 2013, 10:43pm

Dug around the interwebs a little bit – this is starting to smell like a Mir problem…

https://code.google.com/p/java-swing-ayatana/issues/detail?id=19

http://askubuntu.com/questions/349801/running-netbeans-on-ubuntu-13-10-with-xmir -enabled

Bravo Canonical!

@Nico – some of those posts seem to suggest it’s a conflict with Swing and AWT (Java’s built-in GUI toolkits) and Ubuntu running in xmir mode. This seems to suggest there may be some other “mode” to run 13.10 in, such as using X instead.

Confirming via logs is still needed though.

nico5 · October 28, 2013, 12:20pm

i checked now ~/.Spark/logs/ but there is nothing in the folder.

About “MIR”, i do not use it, i’m using X11 with mate because of my slow graphics card which is not working smoothly with the ubuntu-crap.

X.Org X Server 1.14.3

Release Date: 2013-09-12

[ 52.032] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

[ 52.032] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu

Java is running, because i use SAPGUI for Java which has no problem at all, but ofcourse i do not know if spark is using some API’s which SAPGUI does not.

Any ideas how to get spark to tell me whats going on?

Thanks

Nico

Jason60 · October 28, 2013, 6:44pm

Try at the terminal:

~]# java -version

paste the output here

nico5 · October 29, 2013, 8:45am

~$ java -version

java version “1.7.0_45”

Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)

Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)

Comendatore · October 31, 2013, 11:47pm

Hello there,

Check your error log file in [Spark directory]/logs/error.log. If you have something like that complaining about missing libXtst.so.6, just install i386 version of libxtst6 :

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: […]/Spark/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

then :

sudo apt-get install libxtst6:i386

and it’s done

Running Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits,

java version “1.8.0-ea”

Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b111)

Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b53, mixed mode).

Hope it will help you.

nico5 · November 4, 2013, 10:11am

:~$ /opt/Spark/Spark

:~$ less .Spark/

bin/ logs/ plugins/ resources/ spark.properties user/ xtra/

:~$ less .Spark/logs/

.Spark/logs/ is a directory

:~$ ls -ahl .Spark/logs/

total 8,0K

drwxr-xr-x 2 4,0K Okt 23 08:56 .

drwxr-xr-x 8 4,0K Okt 28 13:16 …

:~$ /opt/Spark/starter

:~$ ls -ahl .Spark/logs/

total 8,0K

drwxr-xr-x 2 4,0K Okt 23 08:56 .

drwxr-xr-x 8 4,0K Okt 28 13:16 …

:~$ sudo apt-get install libxtst6:i386

[sudo] password for :

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

libxtst6:i386 is already the newest version.

libxtst6:i386 set to manually installed.

The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:

libqt4-qt3support

Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove it.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

nothing changed,…

any idea how to get Spark to give me any error?

Comendatore · November 4, 2013, 11:55pm

Hmmm ok, Can you post the content of your /opt/Spark/logs/error.log ?

nico5 · November 5, 2013, 7:20am

/opt/Spark/logs$ cat error.log

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.jivesoftware.launcher.Startup.start(Startup.java:94)

at org.jivesoftware.launcher.Startup.main(Startup.java:44)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)

at com.install4j.runtime.Launcher.main(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/Spark/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(Unknown Source)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.Toolkit.(Unknown Source)

at com.jtattoo.plaf.JTattooUtilities.(Unknown Source)

at com.jtattoo.plaf.AbstractLookAndFeel.(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)

at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.loadSystemClass(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(Unknown Source)

at org.jivesoftware.Spark.loadLookAndFeel(Spark.java:271)

at org.jivesoftware.Spark.startup(Spark.java:186)

… 12 more

Comendatore · November 5, 2013, 10:22am

Ok, it seems libXi.so.6 is missing. This file is contained in libxi6 package. As Spark is searching in /jre/lib/i386, i suppose you need to install libxi6:i386 package

sudo apt-get install libxi6:i386

nico5 · November 5, 2013, 10:52am

In Austria we say “Kaum mochst as richtig, gehts a glei” which means “if you do it right, it works”

Thanks a lot!