Re: CentOS 7 update leads to jEdit hanging on startup.

Glad you found and reported the problem. I would not have thought of that.

Thanks.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 11:14 AM Dale Anson <[email protected]> wrote:

> jEdit requires at least Java 11. I've tested on Java up to version 17 and
> all seems fine. 18 should be fine as there weren't significant changes to
> the jvm, however I haven't tested with it or version 19. I'd suggest
> installing Java 11 if you can.
>
> Dale
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 6:41 PM Michael H <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You might try Amazon Corretto instead of Oracle Java. It's more stable
>> and really the keeper of the code these days more so than Oracle... Oracle
>> is just trying to get licensing. From my completely blind position out here
>> in the middle of nowhere, I'd expect Amazon has 3-10 times the number of
>> people working on Corretto code than Oracle has working on Java code.
>> Pretty much any server side cloud instance would be running Corretto these
>> days, since it's part of AWS.
>>
>> I haven't installed from a redhat instance, but it runs fine on Ubuntu,
>> Debian, and SuSE. I currently use Corretto 11 for Jedit 5.6 on (a minor
>> variant of) Ubuntu 20.04
>>
>> https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 2:37 AM Allan Kamau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been using jedit without any issues on CentOS 7.
>>> A week ago, I updated the CentOS 7 OS and now jedit no longer fully
>>> boots, but rather hangs where it displays the tip dialog box. It refuses to
>>> respond to mouse and keyboard inputs.
>>> I have to use kill -9 on the PID of the jedit process for the hanged
>>> jedit to close.
>>>
>>> I have tried to install the jedit "jedit5.6.0install.jar" jar file using
>>> jdk-17.0.4.1/bin/java but the installation also hangs when the dialog box
>>> reads "GNU General Public License".
>>>
>>> The current CentOS 7 I have is shown below.
>>>
>>> 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022
>>>
>>> Allan.
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