a cryptic error on using Java agents in build 144

[Roman Shevchenko]

OK, thanks!

On Do, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:48 , Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> 
wrote:
> 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.