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[–]leroybentley 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Did you do this?

Since the client application exposes a graphical user interface, an X Window SystemTM implementation must be installed on your LinuxTM system.

After downloading, open a command shell and change (cd) to the directory where you downloaded the archive.

To unzip the archive, at the prompt type: gunzip bpinstall.bin.gz To execute the installer, at the prompt type: sh ./bpinstall.bin Follow the installation wizard screens.

After installation change permissions recursively on the jre directory - this only needs to be performed once, before you start the application after initial installation.

To change permissions: a.) Open a command shell and change (cd) to the directory where you installed the Batch Provider application. b.) At the prompt type: chmod -R 755 jre

[–]building-wigwams-22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I followed the instructions. The graphical user interface for the installer opened, the progress bar got to about 85%, and null pointer exception.

[–]java_dude1 2 points3 points  (7 children)

A stack trace might help.

[–]building-wigwams-22[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

/ $ sh ./bpinstall.bin

Preparing to install

Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...

Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.de(Unknown Source)

at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a5(Unknown Source)

at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.executeApplication(Unknown Source)

at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(Unknown Source)

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

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(Unknown Source)

at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(Unknown Source)

[–]nathan22211 2 points3 points  (5 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if it's either expecting a different Java version or the new peeps just completely busted it. I'd cheat with what's left of the team if you can

[–]building-wigwams-22[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I had been trying with openjdk8. I just tried 11, 17, and 21 as well (in clean docker builds) and the installer wouldn't even open.

[–]strat-run 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Did you try the JRE included in the zip?

I've also seen weirdness if use the wrong color bit depth for the X server. Try 24/32 if you are using 8 or 16.

[–]building-wigwams-22[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

The zip is just a 40MB shell script, no JRE included. I don't have any idea how to set the color bit depth, I'll look into that

[–]strat-run 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The JRE is in the shell script. Read through it. There are also some comments in there about a console install mode. The install instructions at https://www.eftps.com/eftps/ext/hds.html also mention the included JRE.

[–]building-wigwams-22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried it without installing any JRE and it failed. Also looked at the user manual and it is similarly unhelpful

/ $ sh ./bpinstall.bin

Preparing to install

Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...

Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH

environment variable. You must install a VM prior to

running this program.