20130705 (Friday, 05 July 2013)

Trying to reproduce a “java.lang.SecurityException: JVM Shared, not allowed to set security manager” reported by a user (client running Windows, Firefox) after they upgraded Java6 to Java7.

Discovering the jconsole command. This command opens an application window which shows a lot of things, except what I expected it to show: a java console (i.e. error messages, exceptions and simple messages to stdout). The Help ‣ About says:

JConsole version: 1.6.0_27-b27
Java VM version: OpenJDK Server VM, 20.0-b12

Explanation: the java console messages are displayed at the terminal from which I launched jconsole…

Code changes:

  • DavLink now throws a RuntimeException “Unknown os.name xyz” when System.getProperty(“os.name”) doesn’t start with “Windows”, “Linux” or “Mac”.

  • Added lino_welfare.migrate.migrate_from_1_1_7().

Aha, here is about the same problem on my machine:

java version "1.7.0_21"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.9) (7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)
java.io.IOException: http://testlino:8080/media/eid-jslib//media/eid-jslib/beid_java_plugin.jnlp
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.openURL(JNLPFile.java:282)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:204)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.PluginBridge.<init>(PluginBridge.java:63)
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.NetxPanel.runLoader(NetxPanel.java:127)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:380)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Initializing
java.lang.SecurityException: Changing the SecurityManager is not allowed.
    at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPSecurityManager.checkPermission(JNLPSecurityManager.java:270)
    at java.lang.System.setSecurityManager0(System.java:295)
    at java.lang.System.setSecurityManager(System.java:286)
    at davlink.DavLink.init(DavLink.java:227)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:436)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Jul 05, 2013 8:59:54 AM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/lino create failed.
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at sun.applet.PluginAppletSecurityContext$4.run(PluginAppletSecurityContext.java:670)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.applet.PluginAppletSecurityContext.handleMessage(PluginAppletSecurityContext.java:667)
    at sun.applet.AppletSecurityContextManager.handleMessage(AppletSecurityContextManager.java:68)
    at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.handleMessage(PluginStreamHandler.java:235)
    at sun.applet.PluginMessageHandlerWorker.run(PluginMessageHandlerWorker.java:78)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: No launcher defined for extension 'rtf'
    at davlink.DavLink.getLauncherFor(DavLink.java:327)
    at davlink.DavLink.open(DavLink.java:333)
    ... 10 more
Error on Java side: No launcher defined for extension 'rtf'
Jul 05, 2013 9:00:24 AM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/lino create failed.

The first java.io.IOException is due to some bugs in how Lino refers to the eid-jslib when lino.ui.Site.use_eid_jslib ist True.

All the remaining errors are caused by “java.lang.SecurityException: Changing the SecurityManager is not allowed.”