Running OpenJDK regression tests with 'jtreg -gui' fails

[Jonathan Gibbons]

This is being tracked as
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/CODETOOLS-7900233

-- Jon

On 10/01/2013 11:48 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> I'll file a high priority bug to investigate this.
>
> -- Jon
>
> On 10/01/2013 09:13 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> maybe this is a silly question, but I'm not able to run the jtreg
>> tests from jdk/tests directory in GUI mode (i.e. by running jtreg with
>> the '-gui' option).
>>
>> If I run the test from the command line, everything works perfect. E.g.
>>
>> JT_JAVA=/jdk1.7.0_09 /jtreg/linux/bin/jtreg -jdk:/jdk1.7.0_09
>> -w:/tmp/JTwork -r:/tmp/JTreport -v java/lang/Boolean
>>
>> successfully runs the 4 tests under java/lang/Boolean.
>>
>> If I however use:
>>
>> JT_JAVA=/jdk1.7.0_09 /jtreg/linux/bin/jtreg -jdk:/jdk1.7.0_09
>> -w:/tmp/JTwork -r:/tmp/JTreport -v -gui java/lang/Boolean
>>
>> the jtreg-GUI appears and lists all the JDK tests in the left window.
>> Now no difference which tests I select and execute, they always fail
>> with the error " Error. Unexpected exception caught from test
>> java/lang/Byte/Decode.java: java.lang.NullPointerException". The stack
>> trace looks as follows:
>>
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javatest.regtest.RegressionScript.run(RegressionScript.java:135)
>>      at com.sun.javatest.Script.run(Script.java:228)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javatest.DefaultTestRunner.runTest(DefaultTestRunner.java:167)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javatest.DefaultTestRunner.access$100(DefaultTestRunner.java:43)
>>      at 
>> com.sun.javatest.DefaultTestRunner$1.run(DefaultTestRunner.java:66)
>>
>> It seems that for some reason, the Java-files are not compiled to
>> classfiles and executed as shell scripts, but I have no idea why this
>> happens. As stated before, without the '-gui' option, everything works
>> perfectly.
>>
>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>> PS: I've tested this with different java version (from 6 to 8) and
>> different jtreg versions (4.1-bin-b02 and 4.1-bin-b05) on Ubuntu 12.04
>> Linux all with the same result.
>