Bug#619140: freemind: fails to start: "Checking Java Version..." forever

[Karl Voit]

Current situation (reviewed):

I removed ~/.freemind and started freemind (without any argument) and get:

,----
| vk at gary ~2d % freemind
| Checking Java Version...
| java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/vk/.freemind/auto.properties (No such file or directory)
|         at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
|         at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:137)
|         at freemind.main.FreeMindStarter.readUsersPreferences(FreeMindStarter.java:136)
|         at freemind.main.FreeMindStarter.main(FreeMindStarter.java:56)
| Panic! Error while loading default properties.
`----

Freemind starts and I have no problem(!) to open mindmap files at all.

Then I quit and try it once again. This time, the java.io.FileNotFoundException
from above does not show up and the usual behavior (freemind shows spashscreen
forever doing nothing) happenes again.

Using:
openjdk-6-jdk
openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless
openjdk-6-jre-lib
freemind            
freemind-browser    
freemind-doc        
freemind-plugins-help
freemind-plugins-script
freemind-plugins-svg

Stefan Denker (Stefan at dn-kr.de) wrote:

> I am trying to reproduce this Bug... 
>
> Just one quick question: You're using OpenJDK, right? And if you do,
> does switching to the Sun-JDK "fix" it for you? 

,----[ removing old openjdk ]
| root at gary ~ # apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
|   jarwrapper libjericho-html-java fastjar binfmt-support
| Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
| The following packages will be REMOVED:
|   default-jre default-jre-headless ditaa icedtea-6-jre-cacao openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
| 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| After this operation, 125 MB disk space will be freed.
| Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
| [...]
`----

,----[ installing sun-java6-jdk (and loosing ditaa) ]
| root at gary ~ # agi sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre
| sun-java6-jre is already the newest version.
| The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
|   jarwrapper libjericho-html-java fastjar binfmt-support
| Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
| Suggested packages:
|   sun-java6-demo openjdk-6-doc sun-java6-source
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   sun-java6-jdk
| 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 20.2 MB of archives.
| After this operation, 62.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
| Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
`----

> This worked for me, I've installed the JDK from Sun and modified
> /usr/bin/freemind: 
> 
> --- /usr/bin/freemind	2011-05-07 13:21:55.000000000 +0200
> +++ /tmp/freemind-old	2011-05-07 13:21:30.000000000 +0200
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
>  if [ -r /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh ]
>  then # the Debian method
>  	. /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh
> -	require_java_runtime openjdk sun 
> +	require_java_runtime sun 
>  else
>  	findjava
>  	if [ $? -ne 0 ]

I applied this "patch" to my /usr/bin/freemind as well.

,----[ re-test scenario ]
| vk at gary ~ % rm -rf ~/.freemind
| vk at gary ~ % freemind
| Checking Java Version...
| java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/vk/.freemind/auto.properties (No such file or directory)
|         at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
|         at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
|         at freemind.main.FreeMindStarter.readUsersPreferences(FreeMindStarter.java:136)
|         at freemind.main.FreeMindStarter.main(FreeMindStarter.java:56)
| Panic! Error while loading default properties.
| freemind  8.62s user 0.61s system 39% cpu 23.320 total
| vk at gary ~ % freemind
| Checking Java Version...
| freemind  8.58s user 0.48s system 32% cpu 28.218 total
| vk at gary ~ % freemind
| Checking Java Version...
| freemind  6.57s user 0.44s system 82% cpu 8.528 total
| vk at gary ~ %
`----

Once again: only the first start (without ~/.freemind) gives the
java.io.FileNotFoundException - well I guess that is on purpose :-)

But this time: each following start of freemind works(!) and I can open (old)
mindmaps without problems. 

> This may just be a Bug in OpenJDK we're dealing with. 

Seems so. At least with SUN JDK it works.

-- 
Karl VOIT