Saturday, November 8, 2008

JAVA Swing and AWT applications freezing in Ubuntu

Now I had been facing this problem from quite some time, but recently found a quick solution. Well, by default, the system uses GIJ as the Java byte interpretor and possibly, it causes the applications to freeze. I had installed the sun-java-6 jdk package but it was not functional because gij was the default one.

Steps:

1. Install the sun-java6-sdk package.
2. Find the default jvm being used by your machine by typing: java -version
3. In case it shows 'gij', then type: sudo update-alternatives --config java
It would list all the possible options with a number corresponding to each. For me it shows:

There are 5 alternatives which provide `java'.

Selection Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
1 /usr/bin/cacao
* 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java
4 /usr/bin/gij-4.3
+ 5 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:

4. Type in the corresponding number to java-6-sun/jre/bin/java, and press return.


That's all... unsure the version of java again by typing th command in step 2, hopefully you will see something different :)

1 comment:

  1. this procedure also solves your installation problems (if any) with NETBeans IDE 6.5 for Ubuntu since, if gij hass been selected by default, you would get the error: 'net beans lexical error or unexpected token, expected valid token' while installation. Change it to sun jvm as shown here, and the problem gets solved.

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