This is an issue with the Java-1.2.8 package on Mac OS X. The original
poster has OS 10.6.8 and I have 10.7.2.
I wasn't sure if this package is even known to work on OS X, so I
thought I'd better escalate to the folks who actually write the code. :-)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Octave 3.4.3 and java-oct343 problem
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:20:07 -0500
From: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fink-beginn...@lists.sourceforge.net
Organization: Fink Beginners
To: Alan Rakes <aara...@bellsouth.net>
CC: fink-beginn...@lists.sourceforge.net
On 11/22/11 6:30 PM, Alan Rakes wrote:
>
> I recently installed the java package to my Octave 3.4.3
> installation. It appears to fail whenever I try to create any
> dialog windows while running Octave. Based on the error messages,
> I believe it is related to how it is installed, so I thought I
> would start with the fink list first.
>
> I am currently running 10.6.8 on an Intel Core i7 MB Pro. Here is
> the error message I get when I try to make a simple error dialog
> from within Octave.
>
> octave:1> errordlg('This is an error'); 2011-11-22 18:21:18.595
> octave[92136:903] Apple AWT Java VM was loaded on first thread --
> can't start AWT. error: [java] java.lang.InternalError: Can't start
> the AWT because Java was started on the first thread. Make sure
> StartOnFirstThread is not specified in your application's
> Info.plist or on the command line error: called from: error:
> /sw/share/octave/3.4.3/packages/java-1.2.8/errordlg.m at line 35,
> column 7 octave:1>
>
>
> Any suggestions? I'll post this to the Octave-forge lists if you
> are certain it is on their end.
>
> Thanks, Alan
There is issue in Apple's Java implementation, in which AWT can't be
run in the main thread. There are a lot of Google hits about that. .
I tried one of the workarounds that showed up online, and that changed
the error (the line being run is the meat of errordlg.m):
octave:2> ret = java_invoke ("org.octave.JDialogBox", "errordlg",
'message', 'title')
2011-11-22 20:46:17.676 octave[99584:1803] Apple AWT Java VM was
loaded on first thread -- can't start AWT.
error: [java] java.lang.InternalError: Can't start the AWT because
Java was started on the first thread. Make sure StartOnFirstThread is
not specified in your application's Info.plist or on the command line
octave:2> ret = java_invoke ("org.octave.JDialogBox", "errordlg",
'message', 'title', '-Djava.awt.headless=true') #workaround
error: [java] java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: errordlg
$ jar tvf /sw/share/octave/3.4.3/packages/java-1.2.8/octave.jar
0 Mon Oct 31 08:40:02 EDT 2011 META-INF/
60 Mon Oct 31 08:40:02 EDT 2011 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
13005 Mon Oct 31 08:39:58 EDT 2011 org/octave/ClassHelper.class
1456 Mon Oct 31 08:39:58 EDT 2011 org/octave/OctClassLoader.class
3406 Mon Oct 31 08:39:58 EDT 2011 org/octave/Octave.class
1355 Mon Oct 31 08:39:58 EDT 2011 org/octave/OctaveReference.class
5914 Mon Oct 31 08:40:00 EDT 2011 org/octave/Matrix.class
12472 Mon Oct 31 08:40:00 EDT 2011 org/octave/JDialogBox.class
2267 Mon Oct 31 08:40:00 EDT 2011 org/octave/DlgListener.class
3593 Mon Oct 31 08:40:00 EDT 2011 org/octave/TeXtranslator.class
321 Mon Oct 31 08:40:00 EDT 2011 org/octave/TeXcode.class
1778 Wed May 04 05:11:30 EDT 2011 org/octave/images/question.png
1205 Wed May 04 05:11:30 EDT 2011 org/octave/images/error.png
1508 Wed May 04 05:11:30 EDT 2011 org/octave/images/warning.png
963 Wed May 04 05:11:30 EDT 2011 org/octave/images/information.png
1463 Wed May 04 05:11:30 EDT 2011 org/octave/images/octave.png
At this point, I don't really have any good ideas. I'm sure the .m
files need to be patched, but there's not really much point in it if
they won't do anything even if patched.
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