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could not start jaikoz - opensuse 10.2

it doesn’t do anything.

the full error is here:

Exception in thread "AWT-XAWT" java.lang.Error: can't load com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel
        at javax.swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1176)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1257)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1245)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults(UIManager.java:556)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.getColor(UIManager.java:590)
        at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifBorders$BevelBorder.<init>(MotifBorders.java:43)
        at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(MotifLookAndFeel.java:197)
        at sun.awt.X11.XAWTLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(XAWTLookAndFeel.java:81)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.getDefaults(BasicLookAndFeel.java:107)
        at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.initUIDefaults(XToolkit.java:232)
        at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.run(XToolkit.java:437)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
20/02/2007 19.15.41:SEVERE: Uncaught throwable caught by EventDispatchThreadExceptionHandler:null
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.getUIError(MultiUIDefaults.java:117)
        at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getUI(UIDefaults.java:721)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(UIManager.java:860)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.updateUI(JOptionPane.java:1810)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1773)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(JOptionPane.java:831)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(JOptionPane.java:645)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(JOptionPane.java:616)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.g.�000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000class(Unknown Source)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.Start$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
20/02/2007 19.15.42:SEVERE: RuntimeException occurred in application
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.getUIError(MultiUIDefaults.java:117)
        at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getUI(UIDefaults.java:721)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(UIManager.java:860)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.updateUI(JOptionPane.java:1810)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1773)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(JOptionPane.java:831)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(JOptionPane.java:645)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(JOptionPane.java:616)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.g.�000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000class(Unknown Source)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.Start$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
20/02/2007 19.15.42:SEVERE: Error in EventDispatchThreadExceptionHandler,continue termination
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.getUIError(MultiUIDefaults.java:117)
        at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getUI(UIDefaults.java:721)
        at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(UIManager.java:860)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.updateUI(JOptionPane.java:1810)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1773)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1736)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1704)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1682)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1662)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1646)
        at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1634)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.g.bc.o000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000super(Unknown Source)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.g.ib.o000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000super(Unknown Source)
        at com.jthink.jaikoz.EventDispatchThreadExceptionHandler.handle(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.handleException(EventDispatchThread.java:355)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.processException(EventDispatchThread.java:261)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:253)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
guille@casa:~>

is this forum alive?

I have the same problem.

I’m gschimmel@ip-tel.com.ar. If somebody has an answer I would apreciate it.

thanks

OK, I dont have access to Open Suse, but I have found two possible leads:

It is failing on treying to load a custom Look and feel called Liquid. This is not required by Jaikoz so I think it must be installed by default, according to thsi page
https://liquidlnf.dev.java.net/

you can remove it by editing the swing.properties files on your system if you have one in your java installation folder, so please try this.

Secondly there appears to be a Suse related bug
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5092883

which maybe causing this problem. the easiest way to test this out is to edit jaikoz.sh so that instead of saying

it says

You will also need to remove the dos eoln charcters in this shell script for it to work, I unfortunately I added them by mistake in the last release

please let me know how you get on .

Uninstaling liquidlnf-xx.rpm fixed the problem for gschmimmel