Unable to start Visual Admin or Configtool due to Java exception on x86_64

[Former Member]

I installed a fresh NW 7.00 Java-only system on Linux x86_64. I'm unable to start the Visual Administrator or Configtool. The X environment and DISPLAY settings are correct because I am able to successfully start other x programs such as 'xclock' and 'xterm' successfully. Any help with this would be apprectiated. Below are the details.

Linux gbswisl1 2.6.9-89.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 10:33:05 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

java version "1.4.2"

Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 2.3)

IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM J9 2.3 Linux amd64-64 j9vmxa64142-20090310 (JIT enabled)

J9VM - 20090309_31291_LHdSMr

JIT - 20090210_1447ifx1_r8

GC - 200902_24)

Visual Administrator Exception

com.sap.engine.tools.launcher.Launcher Error : unable to invoke main class com.sap.engine.services.adminadapter.gui.AdminFrameView

Exception in thread "main" com.sap.engine.tools.launcher.LauncherException

Configtool Exception

Warning: Cannot convert string "--lucida-medium-r--------*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:88)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:61)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:60)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:391)

at com.sap.engine.offline.OfflineToolStart.main(OfflineToolStart.java:81)

Caused by: java.lang.InternalError: java/langNullPointerException

at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.pSetFont(Native Method)

at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.setFont(MComponentPeer.java:308)

at sun.awt.motif.MWindowPeer.init(MWindowPeer.java:153)

at sun.awt.motif.MFramePeer.<init>(MFramePeer.java:93)

at sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.createFrame(MToolkit.java:301)

at java.awt.Frame.addNotify(Frame.java:502)

at java.awt.Window.pack(Window.java:473)

at com.sap.engine.configtool.visual.ConfigToolView.initGuiCfgTool(ConfigToolView.java:139)

at com.sap.engine.configtool.visual.ConfigToolView.<init>(ConfigToolView.java:79)

at com.sap.engine.configtool.visual.ConfigTool.<init>(ConfigTool.java:69)

at com.sap.engine.configtool.visual.ConfigTool.main(ConfigTool.java:961)

... 6 more

[Former Member]

This turned out to be a problem with the X server I was using. I tried a different one and there is no longer any issue.

Thanks anyway.

[Former Member]

Just as an aside, I have TWO linux x86_64 Netweaver 7 systems exhibiting the exact same behavior described above. One is Java-only, the other is ABAP+Java. The database is MaxDB for both. Both are using the IBM J9 JDK.

Thanks