Could not instantiate Graphics Environment with building on mac

[Erik Joelsson]

I've seen this when running in an ssh session without a mac gui and 
using jdk7 (no updates) as boot jdk. Logging in with graphics or using 
at least 7u4 solved it for me.

/Erik

On 2013-01-30 13:22, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
> Anyone see this failure when trying to build on mac. I have the latest 
> jdk8/tl forest, as of 28th Jan.
>
> ## Starting jdk
> Importing CORBA classes.jar
> Importing CORBA src.zip
> Importing CORBA bin.zip
> Importing JAXP classes.jar
> Importing JAXP src.zip
> Importing JAXWS classes.jar
> Importing JAXWS src.zip
> Importing LANGTOOLS src.zip
> Importing LANGTOOLS classes.jar
> Compiling 182 files for BUILD_TOOLS
> Generating charsetmapping classes
> Generating buffer classes
> Generating exceptions classes
> Generating icon classes
> Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
> Compiling 522 properties into resource bundles
> Copying and cleaning 53 properties
> Creating sun/util/LocaleDataMetaInfo.java from 421 found resources.
> Aliases: Table size 1024 (10 bits), shift 0, max chain depth 3
> Classes: Table size 32 (5 bits), shift 1, max chain depth 3
> Cache: Table size 32 (5 bits), shift 1, max chain depth 3
> MergingHash:<Bridgesupportparser::ObjCArgInfo>thePoint[name]: thePoint 
> => aPoint
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Could not instantiate 
> Graphics Environment: sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment
>     at 
> java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.createGE(GraphicsEnvironment.java:118)
>     at 
> java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:81)
>     at 
> java.awt.image.BufferedImage.createGraphics(BufferedImage.java:1152)
>     at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.getGraphics(BufferedImage.java:1142)
>     at sun.awt.X11.ToBin.main(ToBin.java:41)
> make[2]: *** 
> [/Users/chhegar/repos/tl/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/gensrc/sun/awt/X11/XAWTIcon32_java_icon16_png.java] 
> Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> MergingHash:<Bridgesupportparser::ObjCArgInfo>thePoint[name]: thePoint 
> => aPoint
> make[1]: *** [gensrc-only] Error 2
> make: *** [jdk-only] Error 2
> mikemac:macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release chhegar$
>
> -Chris.