[talk-au] loading JOSM

[Ross Scanlon]

Revert to java 6

The message on the start up screen has been there for ages and it's 
sometime soon.

I'm using ubuntu 12.04 as well and have no problems running josm with 
java 6.

Cheers
Ross


On 27/10/13 11:27, Arthur Geeson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly a thank you to the replies I got about the missing bench seats
> that were not appearing on the map.
>
> I have been trying to get JOSM working and it implied that I had a
> version of java that was too old. I then spend several hours to get a
> new version of java and now when I try to run JOSM it just falls over. I
> am using Ubuntu 12.04 and get the following problems:
>
> arthur at arthur-Aspire-5750G:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin$ java
> -version
> java version "1.7.0_25"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.10) (7u25-2.3.10-1ubuntu0.12.04.2)
> OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)
>
> arthur at arthur-Aspire-5750G:/$ josm
> Using /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/java to execute josm.
> java.awt.HeadlessException
> at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:207)
> at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:535)
> at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:420)
> at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:218)
> at
> org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.main(MainApplication.java:316)
>
> I have tried reloading JOSM and the plugins but it seems there maybe
> something wrong with java?
>
> Thanks - Arthur (geesona)
>
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