Could not instantiate Graphics Environment with building on mac

[Chris Hegarty]

On 01/30/2013 12:32 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> 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.

A more recent bootstrap jdk solved the problem. Thank you Eric.

-Chris.

>
> /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.