When clicking the LimeWire start file i get this little window telling me:

Fatal Application Error

This Application has Unexpectedly Quit

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

and theres a Details... button, when clicking it this message comes telling me:

java.lang.NoClassDeFoundError: javax/swing/plaf/metal/MetalLookAndFeel
at
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Initializer.<init>(Init ializer.java:80)
at
at
at com.zerolog.lax.LAX.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.zerolog.lax.LAZ.main(Unknown Source)

Haven't read any FAQ or troubleshooting yet, but I just get the very same message.

Frank.

Can somebody help us?

GP

hm, guess going to start reading

sh LimeWireLinux.bin
Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Stack Trace:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:120)
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvir onment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:58)
at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:188)
at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:315)
at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:262)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.b(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(Unknown Source)
GUI-

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Any ideas? This is the latest and greatest version of LimeWire plus Sun's JRE 2 1.3.1,
and yes, the path to its bin is in my PATH.

-T

That's the typical SuSE-problem you are experiencing, for SuSE will install multiple java runtime environments by default and the default environment it will use is 1.1.8.

What the Interpreter tells you, is that it hasn't found the basic class libraries (usually the file rt.jar or classes.zip for jre1.1.8) what you can do is, give the full path of that file with the -classpath option or you could do what I did (which is not a very clean way to solve the problem): I created a a symlink named "java" in /usr/bin pointing to /usr/lib/jdk1.3.1/jre/bin/.java_wrapper so if I typed in "java" it would use the jre1.3.1 by default (I do not care why things work, as long as they DO work).

I can't find the .java_wrapper file.
I've made a link to javaw, but it doesn't work.

What can I do?

Piet de Boer

Piet,

In a terminal, type 'locate java_wrapper' and see what comes up. If nothing comes up (and you may want to do it as root) then it's not even installed...in which case reinstall java again.

FWIW, I'm using Linux Mandrake 8.1, and Sun's
JRE 1.4.0 (3rd beta). I downloaded both the full installer and gzipped tarball. Neither would install nor run.

However, when I did "java" in a console prompt,
it reported Kaffe java 1.0.1, (instead of Sun's jre 1.4.0). At that time I had not added the PATH
for jre 1.4.0 to my /etc/profile.

I removed Kaffe, and added jre 1.4.0 to /etc/profile, and the installer ran without any
problems!

HTH

Elton Woo ;-)
Registered Linux User #193975.
<http://counter.li.org>