I am currently unable to get Ignition to work with Oracle’s Java on Ubuntu 12.10.
It was installed using:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
I eventually managed to get javaws to produce some output by running /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/bin/ControlPanel and turning on logging and tracing (logs to ~/.java/deployment/logs/).
I am now getting the following trace:
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -8
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1911)
at com.sun.deploy.util.Property.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.util.Property.createProperty(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.util.JVMParameters$ArgumentSet.addArgument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.util.JVMParameters.addArgumentImpl(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.util.JVMParameters.parseImpl(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.util.JVMParameters.parseTrustedOptions(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.initializeExecutionEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
I suspect that isn’t very helpful, but if anyone else has any pointers or can confirm that this does work on Ubuntu 12.10 somewhere that would be useful. OpenJDK 7 does work.
Thanks.