Re: [libreoffice-users] OSX Mavericks upgrade prevents LO from opening because of lack of java

The upgrade does indeed present an opportunity to install apple java
before invoking any of the apps. Having had prior experiencne with the
Apple Java fiasco and took the OS up on its offer, lol.  Unfortunately
it looks like that install doesn't necessarily "take" (while I am sure
the software is installed, my guess is that there are environmental
variables that are not being fully set until some conjunction of the
planets or the like

I did find a clue in that There are other apps it would appear that are
suffering the same problems (not acknowledging the presence of the Apple
JRE.)  I have rebooted and reinstalled the Apple Java a number of times,
and have finally been able to get it to "take" (though installation was
exactly the same as prior instances and rebooting was not required.)

I can tell you that I had to invoke a different app that demanded apple
java that would not crash, and having installed Apple java (a 5th time)
in response to that apps prompt, it "took".  Then,  on pulling up LO and
looking at the JVM dialog,  one could see the Apple JRE in the selector
box (first time a java version appeared there since the upgrade.)   This
may also suggest that this problem may be a result of Apple changing
locations of the JRE (that is apparently what broke Macports) but I am
just guessing there. Apple did rip out all Java (1.6 AND Oracle 1.7) on
upgrade, and I am wondering about LO's response where it is required to
use a JVM, but can't find it -- in other words, why didn't LO (or other
apps for that matter) see the Apple 1.6 JRE when initially installed
when prompted by the OS, even after reboot.

This smacks very much of the same kind of Java issues I saw on
MountainLion. Eventually one could get Java 1.7 running along side Java
1.6, the latter being used for general OS invocation while the former
could be used via CLI and for browsers...  At present I now have LO
running as it has "found" Apple Java 1.6 

LO needs to make the jump so that it can use 1.7 or make it clear that
LO will be java-free by version 4.x or some such....  but I think the
latter would be potentially unfortunate

On 11/1/13, 1:07 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 05:02 PM, Marc Grober wrote:
> > It looks like the thread on addressing operating LO 4 under OSX
> > Mavericks may have taken a small detour.
> >
> > Yes, Java is a bit of a disaster on OSX, and yes once you upgrade Apple
> > blows away your java install so you have to start all over (but will
> > prompt you to install their java.)
> >
> > Assuming you accept their invitation on reboot (the install will invite
> > you to install an Apple Java jre) and then try to run LO (4.1.2.3) you
>
> Does the OS X upgrade itself indeed mention the possibility to
> download an Apple JRE?  I never noticed that.
>
> > will likely get an error message that allows you to either install a
> > java (the install does not say what it is installing, nor from where) or
> > quits.
>
> What I know is the following:
>
> After upgrade or fresh install of OS X (at least since 10.7, IIRC), a
> java executable is installed that is merely a stub, bringing up a
> dialog inviting you to download and install the real Apple JRE 6.
>
> When LO is run on such a "stub-only" machine, as soon as it tries to
> detect a JRE (which might be rather sooner than expected, see the
> "LibreOffice 4.1.2 and Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)" thread on this
> mailing list), it will run the stub java executable and thus trigger
> the dialog.
>
> Now, for some it reportedly works fine to download and install the
> Apple JRE via the dialog and continue working with LO (or even not
> download and install it, and keep living with LO nagging you about a
> missing JRE).  But for some LO reportedly keeps crashing from that
> dialog onwards, no matter how they interact with that dialog.  But I
> only know about that from here-say, and have never seen the problem
> myself, and never seen a backtrace of the crashing LO that could give
> us a clue what's going on there.
>
> (I "wasted" my opportunity to find out for myself when soon after
> upgrading to OS X 10.9 I got confronted with the java stub dialog
> outside the LO context and downloaded/installed it before I came
> around to start LO.)
>
> But since, as described in the "LibreOffice 4.1.2 and Mac OS X 10.9
> (Mavericks)" thread on this mailing list, one unexpected side-effect
> of bundling the Wiki Publisher extension with LO on Mac OS X is that
> LO tries to detect a JRE as soon as you type a key in Writer, we
> decided to deliver LO 4.1.3 for Mac OS X (from
> <http://www.libreoffice.org/download>) without a bundled Wiki
> Publisher extension.  That should help to somewhat mitigate the
> problem and have less people be annoyed by the problem.
>
> Stephan



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