java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError on Ubuntu after Java Upgrade

The command line tools for Jasypt 1.9.3 started throwing java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError after a recent system upgrade. I’m guessing it’s because of the java version, but other packages were upgraded at the same time.

The upgraded server is now running openjdk JRE 1.8.0_265. The example below shows that it won’t encrypt anything.

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-21:/usr/local/bin/jasypt/bin$ ./encrypt.sh input=test password=test

----ENVIRONMENT-----------------

Runtime: Private Build OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.265-b01



----ARGUMENTS-------------------

input: test
password: test



----ERROR-----------------------

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

This sever, which hasn’t been upgraded is running openjdk JRE 1.8.0_252 and encryption works there.

ubuntu@ip-10-1-1-103:/usr/local/bin/jasypt/bin$ ./encrypt.sh input=test password=test

----ENVIRONMENT-----------------

Runtime: Private Build OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.252-b09



----ARGUMENTS-------------------

input: test
password: test



----OUTPUT----------------------

iBVgRSj3NIfi0iPPyYaqIA==

I’m trying to figure out how to downgrade the Java version on Ubuntu, but I’d appreciate any other advice as to what might be done about this as well.

[woozoo73]

I’ve found that you don’t need to remove all the jar files from lib directory. Removing icu4j-3.4.4.jar is enough.

Thanks. Worked for me.

[nkitiyakara]

Okay, probably final thought here as I think I have a workaround. After seeing my little test application working, I went back and moved all the jar files in ./lib to another directory (state demonstrated below) and the encrypt.sh script started working again. Something in one of those jars must be throwing an error after some system update (java or something else), preventing the normal encryption from working. All jars were originally installed from https://github.com/jasypt/jasypt/releases/download/jasypt-1.9.3/jasypt-1.9.3-dist.zip

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-21:/usr/local/bin/jasypt/bin$ ls -alF ../lib
total 148
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  6 15:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Aug  6 15:13 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142255 Aug  6 15:13 jasypt-1.9.3.jar
ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-21:/usr/local/bin/jasypt/bin$ ls -alF ../tmp
total 6732
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug  6 15:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 Aug  6 15:13 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   61829 Sep 24  2019 commons-logging-1.2.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3233439 Sep 24  2019 icu4j-3.4.4.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  142255 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  748409 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   74953 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-1.9.3-lite.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  235508 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   14728 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-acegisecurity-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   53020 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-acegisecurity-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   17233 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-acegisecurity-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78271 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate3-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  356479 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate3-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  115393 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate3-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   44178 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate4-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  188246 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate4-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   60413 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate4-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   44295 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate5-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  187949 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate5-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   59932 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-hibernate5-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   17603 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring2-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   74582 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring2-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   20208 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring2-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   49354 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring31-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   85487 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring31-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   46287 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring31-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   50393 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring3-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  103864 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring3-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   49375 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring3-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   47894 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring4-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   79157 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring4-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   44248 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-spring4-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   15198 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity2-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   54096 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity2-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   17599 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity2-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   20772 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity3-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   71930 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity3-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   22153 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity3-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   15487 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity4-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   47542 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity4-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   14233 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-springsecurity4-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   13146 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-wicket13-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   48014 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-wicket13-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   12613 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-wicket13-1.9.3-sources.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   11020 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-wicket15-1.9.3.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   30294 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-wicket15-1.9.3-javadoc.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    9450 Sep 24  2019 jasypt-wicket15-1.9.3-sources.jar