Send me /home/rshepard/documents/jabrefdb.bib I'll take a look at it.
-Bill Ensley BearPrinting.com On 10/9/2019 10:52 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've used JabRef-3.8.2 (and earlier versions) for years on the 32-bit > desktop. On the new 64-bit desktop it will load once and not again. > Logging > out and back in makes no difference. The problem appears to be a java > issue. > The JabRef folks haven't been able to help as they've moved on to jdk > versions > 8 and the JabRef-4.x and -5.x don't work on linux because of > something Oracle did. > > The host has a Ryzen7 2700 CPU on an ASUS Pro-X470 motherboard with > the most > current BIOS firmware installed. > > The OS is Slackware-64/x86_64, fully patched. > > I installed JabRef-2.9.2 from the slackbuilds.org repo and it loaded but > would not display keyword groups or allow me to re-load those. I then ran > the build script against JabRef-3.8.2 and it loaded both the reference > database and the keyword groups. I deleted a group (an inadvertent "."), > saved the file, and shut down the application. When I tried to restart > it it > failed with this list of error messages: > > $ /usr/bin/JabRef Error parsing gtk-icon-sizes string: '' > 09:55:43.989 [AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.OpenDatabase - Opening: > /home/rshepard/documents/jabrefdb.bib > 09:55:44.307 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR > net.sf.jabref.FallbackExceptionHandler - Uncaught exception Occurred > in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main] > java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "keywords" > at > java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65) > ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:580) ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:615) ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.util.GroupsParser.keywordGroupFromString(GroupsParser.java:104) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.util.GroupsParser.fromString(GroupsParser.java:76) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.util.GroupsParser.importGroups(GroupsParser.java:42) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.util.MetaDataParser.parse(MetaDataParser.java:63) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.util.MetaDataParser.parse(MetaDataParser.java:33) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.fileformat.BibtexParser.parseFileContent(BibtexParser.java:218) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.fileformat.BibtexParser.parse(BibtexParser.java:150) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.fileformat.BibtexImporter.importDatabase(BibtexImporter.java:70) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.Importer.importDatabase(Importer.java:65) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.fileformat.BibtexImporter.importDatabase(BibtexImporter.java:62) > > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.OpenDatabase.loadDatabase(OpenDatabase.java:64) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.logic.importer.OpenDatabase.loadDatabase(OpenDatabase.java:43) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > net.sf.jabref.JabRefGUI.openLastEditedDatabases(JabRefGUI.java:210) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at net.sf.jabref.JabRefGUI.openWindow(JabRefGUI.java:94) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at net.sf.jabref.JabRefGUI.<init>(JabRefGUI.java:63) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at net.sf.jabref.JabRefMain.lambda$start$1(JabRefMain.java:128) > ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?] > at > java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311) > ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758) > ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97) ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709) ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703) ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at > java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74) > > ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728) > ~[?:1.8.0_221] > at > java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:205) > > [?:1.8.0_221] > at > java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116) > > [?:1.8.0_221] > at > java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105) > > [?:1.8.0_221] > at > java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101) > [?:1.8.0_221] > at > java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93) > [?:1.8.0_221] > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82) > [?:1.8.0_221] > > Removing, rebuilding, and reinstalling JabRef-3.8.2 still fails with the > same error report. > > Why JabRef will run once but not again makes no sense to me. I need to > use > this application and ask for any and all help, advice, suggestions, or > solutions you can provide. > > Long ago we had a local professional java developer but he moved to > the east > coast and has not participated on this mail list since. > > TIA, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
