a cryptic error on using Java agents in build 144

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/11/2016 17:48, Roman Shevchenko wrote:

> Nope (sorry, should have mentioned this).
This could only be one of two things so there's enough here to say that 
this is a bug (a regression in jdk-9+143). In thaht build we cleaned up 
the scenario that is the initial module on the module path but no class 
path. When running with -javaagent then the class path is extended which 
leads to a NPE (you can't see it because the exception is cleared in the 
VM). I'll create a bug for this and we'll get it fixed. You can work 
around it in the mean-time by adding `-cp <anything>` to the command line.

-Alan.