On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:12 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am experiencing a JAVA exception when starting a Java application on
> either the official or unofficial Debian OS versions of the Beaglebone
> platform.  The application is running headful mode and uses Swing for the
> GUI..   I have included the exception details below.
>
> At first I thought that this might have been an Oracle Java issue but I have
> tried various combinations of Oracle Java Embedded 7 and 8 plus OpenJDK on a
> number of OS variants on the Beaglebone Black with exactly the same results.
> The same problem does not, however, occur on the unofficially supported
> Ubuntu OS - the application runs fine under the Ubuntu GUI.  It looks to me
> as though there's some subtle difference in X11 between the Debian and
> Ubuntu linux variants.
>
>
> Information
> 1) The application is the 3.20 version of the jOrgan running with in the
> usual GUI (not headless) mode
>
> 2) The target platform is the Beaglebone Black revision A5A with 8GB Sandisk
> Ultra microSD Card
>
> 2). I have tried running the application on the above operating systems
> using the following JVMs::
>     - Open JDK 7- Oracle SE Embedded Java version 7U55
> (ejre-7u55-fcs-b13-linux-arm-vfp-hflt-client_headful-17_mar_2014.tar.gz)
>     - Oracle SE Embedded Java version 8 full profile
> (ejdk-8-fcs-b132-linux-arm-vfp-hflt-03_mar_2014.tar.gz)
>     - Open JDK

Yuck, well contact:

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/contact/index.html


> 3). I have tested using the following BBB operating systems:using the above
> JVMs:
>    - bone-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz                         ====>
> Exception
>    - BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz    ====> Exception
>    - bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-06-2gb.img.xz                         ====>
> Exception
>    - Ubuntu-precise=12.0.4.3-armhf-3.8.13-bone30.img.xz     ====> Successful

It'll probably work just fine with Debian Jessie:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#Debian_Testing_.28jessie.29

Which has a newer libc/xorg stack then Debian Wheezy

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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