5 Replies Latest reply on Jul 7, 2014 9:54 AM by Dude!

[4.0.1] Doesn't start in Ubuntu 13.10

Krystian Rakoczy Mar 6, 2014 9:12 AM

Hi,

I tried to run SQL Developer 4.x in Ubuntu and it cannot run. During starting I got following message:

krystian@krystian-Latitude-E4310:~$ sqldeveloper

Oracle SQL Developer

Copyright (c) 1997, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

LOAD TIME : 514#

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

#

# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f51a8601320, pid=25150, tid=139988754757376

#

# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_51-b13) (build 1.7.0_51-b13)

# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.51-b03 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)

# Problematic frame:

# C 0x00007f51a8601320

#

# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again

#

# An error report file with more information is saved as:

# /tmp/hs_err_pid25150.log

#

# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:

# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp

#

/opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin/../../ide/bin/launcher.sh: line 1193: 25150 Aborted (core dumped) ${JAVA} "${APP_VM_OPTS[@]}" ${APP_ENV_VARS} -classpath ${APP_CLASSPATH} ${APP_MAIN_CLASS} "${APP_APP_OPTS[@]}"

Version 3.x works properly. I'm using JDK7. Any hints?

1. Re: [4.0.1] Doesn't start in Ubuntu 13.10

trent Mar 6, 2014 8:33 PM (in response to Krystian Rakoczy)

See: 4EA1: Not starting on Ubuntu. Unkown protocol sqldev.temp

tl;dr: try using openjdk instead of oracle jdk.
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2. Re: [4.0.1] Doesn't start in Ubuntu 13.10

Krystian Rakoczy Mar 7, 2014 9:39 AM (in response to Krystian Rakoczy)

Thanks,
it helped. It strange that for oracle product I should use openjdk instead of oracle java.

regards,
Kris
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3. Re: [4.0.1] Doesn't start in Ubuntu 13.10

thatJeffSmith-Oracle Mar 7, 2014 2:07 PM (in response to Krystian Rakoczy)

You can use either, there may be a bug in our JDK that causes what you were seeing. There is a fix/workaround if you wanna use it.
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4. Re: [4.0.1] Doesn't start in Ubuntu 13.10

Dude! May 29, 2014 6:36 AM (in response to Krystian Rakoczy)

The problem is that Ubuntu does not use the GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID:

dude@vm311:~$ echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
this-is-deprecated

So the launcher.sh script of SQL Developer will use "this-is-deprecated" instead of creating this variable.

Here is the relevant portion in the script:

if [ ! -z "$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" ] ; then
detect_gnome_proxy

The fix is relatively simple: Either unset the environment variable, or force it's creation in the launcher.sh script (simply remove the ! in the -z condition). Unless the SQL Developers address this, it's probably best to simply unset the variable prior to starting SQL Developer:

dude@vm311:~$ unset GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
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5. Re: [4.0.1] Doesn't start in Ubuntu 13.10

Dude! Jul 7, 2014 9:54 AM (in response to Dude!)

FWIW: Guide: How to install Oracle SQL Developer 4 in Ubuntu Linux
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