iXp fails to start with Error Could not find or load main class -Xms1500m

Products

• CA Workload Automation iXP

Issue/Introduction

After installing iXp 11.4 and starting iXp, following error message is produced

Java virtual machine used: /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java
classpath used: /usr/share/tomcat/lib:/data/CA/ixp/lib:/var/lib/tomcat
main class used:
flags used: -Dixp.home=/data/CA/ixp –Xms1500m –Xmx1500m
options used: -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
arguments used: start
Error: Could not find or load main class –Xms1500m

 

Environment

iXp 11.4 - Linux

Cause

Most likely, the options where copied from somewhere, but didn't copy an ASCII dash, but some other unicode dash that looks very much or even exactly the same as an ASCII dash in your font. Like the em-dash. (\u2014)

Resolution

Remove the "-" (dash) sign and retyped it again.