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20050317: IDV - start-up error

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  • Subject: 20050317: IDV - start-up error
  • Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:34:12 -0700
Hi Mark,


An error has occurred:
In getViewManager
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

The end result is that the main window does not open.  The Date Selector window
and the IDV Help Tips windows still open, but not the main window.

I originally received the error after upgrading to version 1.2b2 as that
was the first time that I saw the error.  However, a little investigation 
revealed
that the error is also occuring with 1.2a2 and 1.2b1.  Therefore the likely
cause of the problem is that my system was recently upgraded to RedHat
Enterprise Linux WS Version 4.

Let me know if there is some other ideas that you would like me to run
from my end.
I am assuming that you were running correctly with 1.2b1 before you upgraded? Did you get a 

From the stack trace it looks like it was a java3d problem. Perhaps
its a driver problem?


Stack trace:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at visad.java3d.DisplayPanelJ3D.<init>(DisplayPanelJ3D.java:57)
        at visad.java3d.DisplayImplJ3D.initialize(DisplayImplJ3D.java:355)
        at visad.java3d.DisplayImplJ3D.initialize(DisplayImplJ3D.java:330)




-Jeff