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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:21:21 +0100
From: sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com>
To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: JMeter startup failure on new XP machine,
 problem went away and came back
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On 10/08/07, Fred Koschara <asf.user@wfredk.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/2007 6:11 PM, sebb wrote:
> > On 09/08/07, Fred Koschara <asf.user@wfredk.com> wrote:
> >> This error occurred when I first installed JMeter (jakarta-jmeter-2.3RC3).  I
> >> poked and prodded, did some reinstallation, tried different things, and suddenly
> >> it worked, without my being able to explain why.  It worked for a couple of
> >> days.  I made the mistake of hitting the "close" button on the DOS box JMeter
> >> was running in, which also took down the GUI window I had test results displayed
> >> in.  When I tried to run JMeter again, the error had returned.  I've reinstalled
> >> Java (JDK and JRE), and JMeter, and this problem won't go away.
> >>
> >> C:\Programs\Java\JAKART~1.3RC\bin > jmeter
> >> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jorphan/ut
> >> il/JMeterException

I get the same error if jorphan.jar is not in the lib directory - are
you sure that the archive was correctly unpacked?

The lib directory should contain at least 31 jar files (more if you
have added Javamail and BeanShell).


> >>         at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
> >>         at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
> >>         at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
> >>         at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
> >>         at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
> >>         at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:181)
> >>
> >> Wed 08/08/2007 15:12:38.48 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> >>
> >> Summary of what I've done:
> >>
> >> brand new development system, Sony Vaio VGN-BX660P 1GB RAM Intel Core2 1.82GHz
> >> installed WAMP 1.7.2
> >> ...
> >> installed jdk-6u2-windows-i586-p.exe JDK 6 Update 2: jdk1.6.0_02, jre1.6.0_02
> >>
> >> Neither JAVA_HOME nor CLASSPATH were set by the Java installation.  I set
> >> JAVA_HOME=C:\Programs\Java\jre1.6.0_02 to use the JRE.
> >>
> >> I tried to figure out what was meant in the "2.3 Installation" section of
> >> http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/get-started.html where it says
> >> "simply unzip the zip/tar file into the directory where you want JMeter to be
> >> installed" and first unzipped the archive into a temporary directory, then
> >> copied the contents of the bin, etc. directories to the corresponding JRE ones
> >> (since that's where I'd set JAVA_HOME to be).
> >
> > That may be the problem.
> >
> > Just unzip the zip file into a directory - e.g. into C:\ - this will
> > create the directory  C:\jakarta-jmeter-2.3RC3 and all the JMeter
> > files will be below that. Do not copy the files into the JRE
> > directories.
> >
> > Don't extract JMeter into a path with any spaces in it or remote mode
> > will not work.
>
> JMeter was working (when it was working) with it mixed in with the JRE the first
> time.  In the second installation (see the following paragraphs), I unpacked
> JMeter into its own directory (C:\Programs\Java\jakarta-jmeter-2.RC3), and
> that's where it's not working from now.
>
> I had noted the "path with no spaces" warning in the JMeter installation
> directions, which is why I'd installed it under "C:\Programs" instead of under
> "C:\Program Files" in the first place.
>
> >> Once I figured out where jmeter.bat was, I opened a DOS box in that directory
> >> and tried running "jmeter" - which returned the error output illustrated above.
> >>  I tried hacking at the problem, reinstalling stuff, rebooting, reinstalling
> >> more - and suddenly it started working, for reasons unknown.  Unfortunately, I
> >> didn't keep notes of all the steps I went through, so I've got no clue what I
> >> changed that caused it to start working.
> >>
> >> When the bug returned, I tried reinstalling Java, discovered there were at least
> >> two copies on the machine, and deinstalled both Java and JMeter.  In doing the
> >> reinstall, I put Java back in the same place I'd had it before, and unpacked
> >> JMeter into a separate directory, so its files are no longer mixed in with the
> >> JRE ones.  I'm still getting the same error, and cannot proceed with *ANY* testing.
> >>
> >> I tried looking at the source code, but without studying the whole JMeter
> >> application, I don't think I'd know where to look for this problem.
> >>
> >> I've Googled for "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError"
> >> which returned lots of "set CLASSPATH" types of results, and tried a variety of
> >> CLASSPATH settings, none of which have made any difference.  I now have it as:
> >> .;C:\Programs\Java\jre1.6.0_02\lib;C:\Programs\Java\jakarta-jmeter-2.3RC3\lib;C:\Programs\Java\httpunit-1.6.2\jars;C:\Programs\Java\httpunit-1.6.2\lib;
> >>
> >> I also Googled "NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jorphan/util/JMeterException"
> >> which only returned pages about BeanShell, which seems pretty irrelevant here.
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong here?  Did I misinstall something?  Is there a problem
> >> with using JMeter with Java 6 Update 2?  (Should I be asking these questions
> >> somewhere at Sun?)  Is there a better way to look for useful suggestions?  Did
> >> closing the DOS box with JMeter running in it really break something at the
> >> system level, as it appears???
> >>
> >> Any useful suggestions will be sincerely appreciated!!
>
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