Is Linux supported ?

[bidek]

Hi,

I've got a problem, in the last step of New Diagram Wizard, after clicking Finish, wizard window doesn't close down and whole Eclipse is hanging. Cant do anything except "kill -9 eclipse".
Bpmn file is produced with proper content( it seems at first glance) but when i kill eclipse, file is cleared. After restarting Eclispe, Designer can't open empty file.

i notice this issue in september 2012(http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=4638), but in that time I ignore it. Now i really want use Designer on Linux box. Can anyone help ?

ps. Sorry for my english ops:

[trademak]

Hi,

Are you using the latest 5.12.0 release of the Designer?
There's really no reason it shouldn't work on Linux.
Can you see something in the Eclipse log files that points to an error or problem?

Best regards,

[bidek]

Thanks for quick answer
Yes, i`m using lastest version of Desginer but i have this problem since i try to use Designer on Linux box( from about september 2012 - Activiti Designer 5.9 - 5.10 ? )

Sadly workspace/.metadata/log is free from exceptions.
When I start the Eclispe from the console, there are no errors on console output when adding a new diagram.

I think the problem lies in my environment - I asked my colleague to check it on ubuntu 12.10 and he doesn't have any issues.
I`m using ArchLinux 64bit, and I try this on OpenJDK 64bit and Oracle JDK 64bit. On Eclipse from official Arch package and for downloaded from eclipse.org.

Unfortunately i dont know eclispe platform well, so i don't know how to debug this.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[frederikherema1]

Can you perhaps request a stack-dump from the eclipse process? Maybe we can see what is keeping eclipse busy or alternatively attach JConsole?

[bidek]

I`ve never done this kind of thing before… whether such an approach would be a good thing? http://wiki.eclipse.org/How_to_report_a_deadlock

[frederikherema1]

The solutions discussed on they wiki-page seem fine to me. As we don't have such an environment as you setup and don't have the bandwidth to set it up and test this ourselves, it would be really useful if you could spend a bit of your time to see if you can find out what the actual cause is, using the suggested approaches…

[bidek]

how eclispe looks after trying add new diagram:
http://postimg.org/image/hwitvquux/
jstack -l <eclispe_pid>https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5300979
jstack -J-d64 -l <eclipse_pid>https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5300984

what can I else do ?

[bidek]

I think that i found solution:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215234
first, I installed cups and start cupsd, and this helped
but this is not acceptable - I have no printer
then I use
-vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.disablePrintingand problem disappeared

Thanks Guys for help and pointing jstack tool
as in old Polish proverb: man learns all life

[frederikherema1]

Crazy that a printing-system can impact the creation of an Activiti diagram… perhaps some obscure class down in AWT