[mpich-discuss] jumpshot hangs

[Burlen Loring]

Anthony Chan wrote:
> ----- "Burlen Loring" <burlen.loring at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all, I am having some troubles running jumpshot, it gets so far and
>> then hangs. I am not proficient in java so I have no good informatio
>> about why this happens. Maybe it has to do with my java configuration?I 
>> have kde ubuntu and have java installed from the package repos. Looks
>> like there are a variety of java related packages installed.
>> Can any one offer advise on how to work through these issues?
>>
>> here is what happens:
>>
>> tycho:~$jumpshot
>> GUI_LIBDIR is set. GUI_LIBDIR = /opt/mpich2-1.0.7/lib
>> Java is version 1.5.0.
>> Starting the SLOG-2 Display Program .....
>> Jumpshot-4 setup file : /home/burlen/.jumpshot4.conf
>> Creating Jumpshot-4 setup file ...
>>
>> I see two windows, one warns that jumpshot is about to create a file
>> and has an OK button the other is the main window. Nothing can be
>> done to these
>>     
>
> Check if your jumpshot is using GNU's java interpreter, gij ?  try
>
> cat `which jumpshot` | grep "^JVM="
>
> AFAIK, GNU's JVM is broken in terms of running fancy Swing GUI, but
> the latest version comes with most linux distro is getting worse in
> terms of running Swing GUI.  Anyway, you need to install SUN's,
> IBM's or OpenJDK's Java, then update the jumpshot's JVM to one of
> the working JVMs.
>
> A.Chan 
>
>   
Good call! I switched to sun java 6 and installed the jdk and it's 
working! Thank you.
Burlen




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Burlen Loring
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