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
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