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DBeaver fails to start

See original GitHub issue

System information:

Operating system (distribution) and version:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

Using Gnome Shell DE

DBeaver version 6.0.2
Java version

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_191"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_191-8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1-b12)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)

Additional extensions n/a

Describe the problem you’re observing:

On starting up, after the splash screen nothing happens 😦

Steps to reproduce, if exist:

With the above combination of versions, dbeaver just fails to start.

Work around, temporary fix

If we view the logs by starting dbeaver via the shell

$ dbeaver

we can see exactly where it blows up:

Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Assistive Technology not found: org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper

Seems we can disable this “Accessibility” thingy which can be found here (depending on your version):

/etc/java-8-openjdk/accessibility.properties

just comment out so that it reads:

# assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

tchibatroncommented, May 21, 2019

This is related to dashboards. If you open dashboard and close DBeaver, it will not start untill you change accessibility.properties.

1reaction

serge-ridercommented, Jun 29, 2019

In 6.1.1 we have migrated to JDK11 which doesn’t have such issues. However we ship it only for Windows and Mac (in installers) while on Linux we keep using pre-intalled JRE.

Not sure what we can do with this now. Add jre in every Linux deb/rpm/zip distributions doesn’t look like a good idea…

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