20040923: Fatal error starting IDV-1.1

>From: "John R. Jackson" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Purdue
>Keywords: 200409231944.i8NJiYnJ001669 IDV start error

Hi John-

>I downloaded and ran the Solaris (2.9) InstallAnywhere version of IDV
>1.1.  As I recall, the only change to the defaults I made was to load
>the software into /opt/idv-1.1.

Okay.

>The only way to run IDV appears to be to cd into /opt/idv-1.1 and
>then execute ./runIDV.  Trying to run IDV (the /usr/local/bin symlink
>installed by the InstallAnywhere stuff) fails because runIDV that it
>points to tries to run ./jre/bin/java and that requires you to be in
>the /opt/idv-1.1 directory.  Changing the line to run java with an
>explicit path doesn't work because the jar's are not found.

Thanks for letting us know about this.  Was the symlink installed
in /usr/local/bin or did you tell it to install it there during
the installation?

>In any case, the more serious problem is that when anyone successfully
>executes runIDV they get a fatal relocation (missing symbol?) error:
>
>Warning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-
> *-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>ERROR ucar.unidata.idv.IdvManager - An error has occurred:
>In getViewManager
>/opt/idv-1.1/jre/lib/sparc/libJ3D.so: ld.so.1: ./jre/bin/java: fatal: relocati
> on error: file /opt/idv-1.1/jre/lib/sparc/libJ3D.so: symbol glClipPlane: refe
> renced symbol not found

This looks like it can't find the OpenGL library.  Is OpenGL installed
on this system?   I don't think it gets installed by default when
you install Solaris. 

>java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/idv-1.1/jre/lib/sparc/libJ3D.so: ld.so.1:
>  ./jre/bin/java: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/idv-1.1/jre/lib/sparc/lib
> J3D.so: symbol glClipPlane: referenced symbol not found
>       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 javax.media.j3d.MasterControl$22.run(MasterControl.java:889)
>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>       at javax.media.j3d.MasterControl.loadLibraries(MasterControl.java:886)
>       at javax.media.j3d.VirtualUniverse.<clinit>(VirtualUniverse.java:229)
>       at javax.media.j3d.NativeConfigTemplate3D.<clinit>(NativeConfigTemplate
> 3D.java:243)
>       at javax.media.j3d.GraphicsConfigTemplate3D.<clinit>(GraphicsConfigTemp
> late3D.java:55)
>       at ucar.unidata.view.geoloc.MapProjectionDisplayJ3D.makeConfig(MapProje
> ctionDisplayJ3D.java:405)
>       at ucar.unidata.view.geoloc.MapProjectionDisplayJ3D.<clinit>(MapProject
> ionDisplayJ3D.java:394)
>       at ucar.unidata.view.geoloc.MapProjectionDisplay.getInstance(MapProject
> ionDisplay.java:266)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.MapViewManager.init(MapViewManager.java:337)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ViewManager.init(ViewManager.java:411)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.MapViewManager.<init>(MapViewManager.java:290)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.VMManager.getViewManager(VMManager.java:365)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.getViewManager(IntegratedDataV
> iewer.java:789)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.getViewManager(IntegratedDataV
> iewer.java:763)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.doMakeContents(DefaultIdv.java:110)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.getContents(IntegratedDataView
> er.java:614)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.initGui(IdvUIManager.java:2906)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.initGui(IdvUIManager.java:2882)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.init(IntegratedDataViewer.java
> :263)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.<init>(DefaultIdv.java:79)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.main(DefaultIdv.java:160)
>ERROR ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer - An error has occurred:
>Initializing the GUI
>java.lang.NullPointerException
>java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.associateWindowWithViewManager(IdvU
> IManager.java:452)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.initWindow(IdvUIManager.java:438)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.doMakeContents(DefaultIdv.java:113)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.getContents(IntegratedDataView
> er.java:614)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.initGui(IdvUIManager.java:2906)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.initGui(IdvUIManager.java:2882)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.init(IntegratedDataViewer.java
> :263)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.<init>(DefaultIdv.java:79)
>       at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.main(DefaultIdv.java:160)
>

Don Murray
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