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Azureus crashes on startup

Posted September 29th, 2007 in Applications

Azureus is a cross browser bittorrent client, and after upgrading openSUSE from 10.2 to 10.3 Azureus wouldn't start. I would get the splash screen flash up but then it would crash without actually running.

I opened up a console and ran Azureus from there, and got the following error message, attempting to run Azureus version 2.5:

Starting Azureus...
Suitable java version found [java = 1.5.0_10]
Configuring environment...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
GRE/XULRunner automatically found
Loading Azureus:
java -Xmx128m -cp "./Azureus2.jar:./swt.jar" -Djava.library.path="/opt/azureus" -Dazureus.install.path="/opt/azureus" -Dazureus.script="/opt/azureus/azureus" -Dazureus.script.version=2 org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main
java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
/opt/azureus/azureus: line 188: 15370 Aborted ${JAVA_PROGRAM_DIR}java "${JAVA_ARGS}" -cp "${CLASSPATH}" -Djava.library.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" -Dazureus.install.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" -Dazureus.script="$0" $JAVA_PROPS $START_CLASS "$@"
Exit from Azureus complete
No shutdown tasks to do
Azureus TERMINATED.


Having had a number of other issues after upgrading openSUSE, I decided it would be best to reinstall Azureus, so I downloaded Azureus version 3 and installed that. Again, I got the same sort of error with the splash screen flashing up and then the application crashing, so again ran it from the command line to see what errors I would see. This time I got this:

Starting Azureus...
Suitable java version found [java = 1.5.0_10]
Configuring environment...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
Browser check failed with: memmove
Auto-scanning for GRE/XULRunner. You can skip this by appending the GRE path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME.
checking /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.8.1 for GRE
Can not use GRE from /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.8.1 because it's missing components/libwidget_gtk2.so.
checking /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.8.1.4 for GRE
Can not use GRE from /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.8.1.4 because it's missing components/libwidget_gtk2.so.
checking /usr/lib/firefox for GRE
Can not use GRE from /usr/lib/firefox because it's missing components/libwidget_gtk2.so.
Browser check failed with: NoClassDefFoundError
Can't create browser. Will try to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and hope Azureus has better luck.
GRE/XULRunner automatically found
Loading Azureus:
java -Xmx128m -cp "./Azureus2.jar:./swt.jar" -Djava.library.path="/home/chris/install/azureus" -Dazureus.install.path="/home/chris/install/azureus" -Dazureus.script="./azureus" -Dazureus.script.version=2 org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: memmove
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.memmove(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:67)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:128)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.(SWTThread.java:89)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.createInstance(SWTThread.java:68)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer.(Initializer.java:101)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.(Main.java:80)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.main(Main.java:203)
Exit from Azureus complete
No shutdown tasks to do
Azureus TERMINATED.


Hmm, those were even worse errors than the first time. I started up Yast and did a search on gtk2, because that had popped up in the error messages a fair bit. At the top of the application list was was Azureus, so installed the version from the SUSE installation source.

Once again, I got the splash screen, a quick flash up of the application, and then Azureus crashed. So the command line again, this time revealing:

java virtual machine used: /usr/lib64/jvm/jre/bin/java
classpath used: /usr/share/java/Azureus/Azureus3.jar:/usr/share/java/Azureus/swt.jar
main class used: org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main
flags used:
options used: -Xms16m -Xmx128m -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib64/Azureus:/usr/lib/Azureus
arguments used:


Well that wasn't very useful! I was beginning to wonder if maybe the openSUSE upgrade had caused some issues with the Azureus configuration, so I issued the following command:

mv ~/.azureus ~/.azureus~

Azureus's settings are stored in a directory under the home folder called .azureus, so what I did above was to rename it to .azureus~. When Azureus starts up, there are no existing configuration settings, so it will recreate the directory with default settings.

Having done the above, I started Azureus up again and this time it worked, so there was clearly something wrong the configuration files. I didn't bother trying to work out what the problem might have been and deleted the backed up old version of the settings directory.