SoGE 8.1.6 GUI Crash

[tobeychris@…]

Hi,

I ran into this error on a new CentOS 6.4 x64 installation with SoGE 8.1.6.

# ./start_gui_installer

Starting Installer ...

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException?

at

sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl?.newInstance0(Native Method)

at

sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl?.newInstance(NativeConstructorAcces?
sorImpl.java:57)

at

sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl?.newInstance(DelegatingConstruc?
torAccessorImpl.java:45)

at

java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)

at

com.izforge.izpack.installer.InstallerFrame?.loadPanels(Unknown Source)

at

com.izforge.izpack.installer.InstallerFrame?.<init>(Unknown Source)

at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.loadGUI(Unknown

Source)

at

com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.access$100(Unknown Source)

at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller$2.run(Unknown

Source)

at

java.awt.event.InvocationEvent?.dispatch(InvocationEvent?.java:251)

at

java.awt.EventQueue?.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue?.java:733)

at java.awt.EventQueue?.access$200(EventQueue?.java:103)

at java.awt.EventQueue?$3.run(EventQueue?.java:694)

at java.awt.EventQueue?$3.run(EventQueue?.java:692)

at java.security.AccessController?.doPrivileged(Native

Method)

at

java.security.ProtectionDomain?$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain?.ja
va:76)

at java.awt.EventQueue?.dispatchEvent(EventQueue?.java:703)

at

java.awt.EventDispatchThread?.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread?.java
:242)

at

java.awt.EventDispatchThread?.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread?.java:16
1)

at

java.awt.EventDispatchThread?.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread?.java
:150)

at

java.awt.EventDispatchThread?.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread?.java:146)

at

java.awt.EventDispatchThread?.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread?.java:138)

at

java.awt.EventDispatchThread?.run(EventDispatchThread?.java:91)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException?

at

java.text.MessageFormat?.applyPattern(MessageFormat?.java:436)

at java.text.MessageFormat?.<init>(MessageFormat?.java:363)

at java.text.MessageFormat?.format(MessageFormat?.java:835)

at

com.sun.grid.installer.gui.HostTable?.createPopupMenu(HostTable?.java:220)

at

com.sun.grid.installer.gui.HostTable?.initPopupMenu(HostTable?.java:99)

at

com.sun.grid.installer.gui.HostTable?.<init>(HostTable?.java:66)

at

com.sun.grid.installer.gui.HostPanel?.init(HostPanel?.java:276)

at

com.sun.grid.installer.gui.HostPanel?.<init>(HostPanel?.java:151)

... 23 more

Any thoughts on the cause / what I can do to fix this?

If there is something I can run to produce more useful logs let me know.

-Chris

[dlove]

Thanks. It seems to be due to a broken XML file somehow, despite being
tested. I'll probably make a fixed jar file as an interim remedy when I
get a chance.

[Dave Love <d.love@…>]

In 4674/sge:

Fix #1488: broken XML preventing GUI installer startup