arduino-1.0_2,1 execution failure

[enoch]

Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, enoch wrote:
>
>> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, enoch wrote:
>>>
>>>> $ arduino
>>>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/io/CommPortIdentifier
>>>>        at processing.app.Editor.populateSerialMenu(Editor.java:969)
>>>>        at processing.app.Editor.buildToolsMenu(Editor.java:697)
>>>>        at processing.app.Editor.buildMenuBar(Editor.java:482)
>>>>        at processing.app.Editor.<init>(Editor.java:204)
>>>>        at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:700)
>>>>        at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:665)
>>>>        at processing.app.Base.handleNew(Base.java:561)
>>>>        at processing.app.Base.<init>(Base.java:301)
>>>>        at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:190)
>>>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier
>>>>        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
>>>>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>>>        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
>>>>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
>>>>        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
>>>>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
>>>>        ... 9 more
>>>>
>>>> $ uname -prs
>>>> FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE amd64
>>>
>>> How was it installed?  I just tried a fresh 8.3 i386 VM, installing from packages, and the Arduino IDE comes right up.
>>
>> It's the latest port build that fails. It may a current definicency in
>> the diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_19 (again, from ports).
>
> Given the error, maybe a problem with rxtx.  On both the 8.3/i386 and another 9-stable/amd64 I have openjdk6 and rxtx-openjdk6.

Ridding myself of Oracle dependency (that is, switching to openjdk6) solved the problem. Thanks. Enoch.
P/S I guess ports/UPDATING should have a call to do the same.