OS X 10.9.1, LO 4.2.0.4... but still no Java7? [closed]

asked 2014-02-01 17:48:33 +0200

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To the question "Which path to enter to add Java 7 to a Mac OS X installation." (posted on Jan 13 '13 by Martin Krischik), on Jan 21 '14 mcnesium answered:

"It does not take the Java 7 path because it's 64bit and LibO 4.1 does not support 64bit yet. It will be available in 4.2".

Excellent news... however, I upgraded to LO 4.2.0.4 just yesterday, yet to be able to use Base I still had to install the older (and no longer recommended!) Java 6 because it was not possible to make it use the more recent Java 7 already installed. Too bad!

The 4.2 Release Notes, under "Infrastructure", do say "Added 64-bit builds for OS X", so what's the issue?

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Here's the bug report generated when trying to open a Base document with just Java7 installed:

Process:         soffice [1378]
Path:            /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice
Identifier:      org.libreoffice.script
Version:         4.2.4 (0)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [195]
Responsible:     soffice [1378]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2014-02-01 17:57:14.626 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  9B55E840-8B9D-D368-8B0B-B6FB4D00D4A6


Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
abort() called
terminating with unexpected exception of type com::sun::star::loader::CannotActivateFactoryException

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x00007fff8dd01866 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff91c7635c pthread_kill + 92
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x00007fff99fd9bba abort + 125
3   libc++abi.dylib                 0x00007fff9040c141 abort_message + 257
4   libc++abi.dylib                 0x00007fff90431abc default_terminate_handler() + 264
5   libobjc.A.dylib                 0x00007fff98078322 ...

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Diabolus ( 2014-02-01 18:30:48 +0200 )edit

I've been wondering exactly the same thing! Hope there's a solution to this soon, it seems like failing the "creating a new database" test should be a blocker!

telecomm ( 2014-02-02 11:57:08 +0200 )edit

I guess everyone has also looked at this post.

frofa ( 2014-02-08 07:24:55 +0200 )edit

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answered 2014-02-14 06:46:40 +0200

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Maybe this BUG REPORT is relevant.

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Oh man. MacOS users are going to just love that the workaround (because Oracle have not properly patched Java) is to install Java v1.6.0_65 for OS X from Apple ... until Oracle Java v1.9 becomes available. The Apple / Oracle lovefest continues.

oweng ( 2014-02-14 09:30:56 +0200 )edit

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answered 2014-02-03 09:43:22 +0200

Alex Thurgood
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Did you check within Preferences first to see whether Java 7 was recognised ? Did you select the Java 7 JVM, restart LO and then try to open a hsqldb ?

If it still fails after trying that with the same error message, then file a bug report.

As Java 7 is not supplied as standard with OSX Mavericks, and TDF builds LO (mostly) against the standard software versions provided by Apple, i.e, Java 6, it may well be that something is hardcoded somewhere (either the bit-ness or the version). Previous versions of LO were built using the -d32 swtich for the Java engine, and it may well be that this hasn't been altered for the 64bit build.

File a bug report, and convince the devs to build against Java 7 on Mac 64bit enabled if that is not already the case.

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answered 2014-06-23 22:17:59 +0200

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For what it's worth, I just installed JRE 1.8.0u5 and LibreOffice 4.2.5 on my Mac running OS X 10.9. The Oracle 1.8.0_05 JRE and the Apple 1.6.0_65 JRE both appear in the list of JREs in Preferences -> LibreOffice -> Advanced. I don't have a way to give it a good workout but at least I can choose the new JRE.

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This is precisely what is implied in comment 5 of bug 74877

Alex Thurgood ( 2014-06-28 22:28:48 +0200 )edit

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