Patch installer for Linux version is not working. Please find attached error log.

Products

• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

Patch installation is failing with below error in Linux machine.

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.GUIHelper.invokeOnEDT(GUIHelper.java:440)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.headless.AbstractHeadlessScreenExecutor.init(AbstractHeadlessScreenExecutor.java:82)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.headless.ConsoleScreenExecutor.<init>(ConsoleScreenExecutor.java:25)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.headless.InstallerConsoleScreenExecutor.<init>(InstallerConsoleScreenExecutor.java:6)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.getScreenExecutor(Installer.java:84)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.runInProcess(Installer.java:60)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.main(Installer.java:46)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(LauncherEngine.java:84)
    at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.UnixLauncher.start(UnixLauncher.java:69)
    at install4j.Installer1582635058.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:1349)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:1324)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.GUIHelper.invokeOnEDT(GUIHelper.java:436)
    ... 13 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at sun.awt.FontConfiguration.getVersion(FontConfiguration.java:1264)
    at sun.awt.FontConfiguration.readFontConfigFile(FontConfiguration.java:219)
    at sun.awt.FontConfiguration.init(FontConfiguration.java:107)
    at sun.awt.X11FontManager.createFontConfiguration(X11FontManager.java:774)

Environment

Release : 10.7

Cause

 Devtest 10.7.2 Linux/Unix version requires fontconfig package. In the absence of fontconfig package, we see an error as below:

    Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at sun.awt.FontConfiguration.getVersion(FontConfiguration.java:1264)

Resolution

Please install fontconfig package in your linux machine and then start the patch installation. You can install this package using below command.

  yum install fontconfig