[starlogo-users] Help with Mandrake-Linux 8.1

[Gary Dunn]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:36:25 -0700
"Andrew Begel" <abegel at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> This is probably caused by you unknowingly running Kaffe instead of 
> Sun's Java. Sun's JRE RPM installs into /usr/java, whose bin directory 
> /usr/java/bin is likely not in your PATH. You can make a symlink from 
> /usr/java/bin/java to /usr/local/bin/java and that'll get you the right 
> one. Or change the shell script to explicitly reference 
> /usr/java/bin/java instead of just java. Then StarLogo will start 
> working.
> 
> Andrew

You are correct. I used the work-around shown below, an addition to the PATH. Now, when Starlogo starts, I get a series of error messages in the terminal window. Looks like I either need to create a folder, or change the permissions on something, or my Linux uses a different file locking call the the JRE is expecting. Or something like that. Any ideas?

[knowtree at vaiosr7k knowtree]$ which java
/usr/bin/java

[knowtree at vaiosr7k starlogo-2.0]$ java -version
Kaffe Virtual Machine
Copyright (c) 1996-2000
Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.  All rights reserved
Engine: Just-in-time v3   Version: 1.0.6   Java Version: 1.1

[knowtree at vaiosr7k bin]$ pwd
/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_02/bin

[knowtree at vaiosr7k bin]$ ./java -version
java version "1.4.0_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0_02-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0_02-b02, mixed mode)

modified starlogo-unix:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_02/bin:${PATH}
java -classpath .:./patch.jar:./starlogo.jar -Xmx256000000 starlogo.Toplevel compiler english "init 100" $1

[knowtree at vaiosr7k starlogo-2.0]$ pwd
/home/knowtree/starlogo-2.0

[knowtree at vaiosr7k starlogo-2.0]$ ./starlogo-unix
Sep 20, 2002 11:16:07 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$2 run
WARNING: Could not create system preferences directory. System preferences are unusable.
Sep 20, 2002 11:16:39 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences checkLockFile0ErrorCode
WARNING: Could not lock System prefs.Unix error code 1406650888.
Sep 20, 2002 11:16:39 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: Couldn't get file lock.
Sep 20, 2002 11:17:09 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences checkLockFile0ErrorCode
WARNING: Could not lock System prefs.Unix error code 1406650888.
Sep 20, 2002 11:17:09 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: Couldn't get file lock.



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 Gary Dunn
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