Two Breezy problems: Acroread and Jedit

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 7 22:39:35 UTC 2005


Jack Jackson wrote:
> 
> 
> Will H. Backman wrote:
> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
>>> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jack Jackson
>>> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 3:45 PM
>>> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
>>> Subject: Two Breezy problems: Acroread and Jedit
>>>
>>> hi
>>> Having difficulties with Acroread and Jedit on an otherwise flawless
>>> install of breezy on a Dell 5150 Inspiron notebook.
>>>
>>> I installed java correctly - java --version shows 1.4.2 and downloaded
>>> jedit. it installed properly - I can see it installed to the menu and
>>> shortcuts, but starting it either through a RUN command or clicking on
>>> its icon, or through right clicking and "Open with JEdit, Programmers
>>> Text Editor" results in ... nothing.
>>>
>>> I also installed adobe acrobat using apt-get and then again manually.
>>> Manually the files installed fine, and when I launch acroread, for a
>>> brief, exciting moment I see the splash screen....and then nothing.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Try starting the commands from a terminal prompt.  You can usually get
>> some debug out there.
>>
> 
> Nice idea.
> 
> 1. The jedit command did in fact produce a
> 
> GC WARNING: Out Of Memory! Returning NIL!
> GC WARNING: Out Of Memory! Returning NIL!
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
> <<no stacktrace available>>
> 
> Any thoughts?

jedit doesn't work with gij-4.0. it needs some more work and packaging
of jars included in the jedit upstream source.

 Matthias




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