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GUI does not start on Mac

See original GitHub issue

UI crashes on start with exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
    at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:917)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$155(LauncherImpl.java:182)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.sun.javafx.font.MacFontFinder.populateFontFileNameMap(MacFontFinder.java:99)
    at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontFactory.getFullNameToFileMap(PrismFontFactory.java:1740)
    at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontFactory.getFontResource(PrismFontFactory.java:469)
    at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontFactory.createFont(PrismFontFactory.java:571)
    at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontLoader.font(PrismFontLoader.java:181)
    at javafx.scene.text.Font.font(Font.java:148)
    at javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper.deriveFont(CssStyleHelper.java:1643)
    at javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper.lookupFont(CssStyleHelper.java:1954)
    at javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper.lookup(CssStyleHelper.java:896)
    at javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper.transitionToState(CssStyleHelper.java:678)
    at javafx.scene.Node.impl_processCSS(Node.java:9189)
    at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Parent.java:1241)
    at javafx.scene.control.Control.impl_processCSS(Control.java:855)
    at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Parent.java:1272)
    at javafx.scene.Node.processCSS(Node.java:9056)
    at javafx.scene.Scene.doCSSPass(Scene.java:545)
    at javafx.scene.Scene.preferredSize(Scene.java:1643)
    at javafx.scene.Scene.impl_preferredSize(Scene.java:1720)
    at javafx.stage.Window$9.invalidated(Window.java:846)
    at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.markInvalid(BooleanPropertyBase.java:109)
    at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.set(BooleanPropertyBase.java:144)
    at javafx.stage.Window.setShowing(Window.java:922)
    at javafx.stage.Window.show(Window.java:937)
    at javafx.stage.Stage.show(Stage.java:259)
    at at.favre.tools.dconvert.ui.GUI.start(GUI.java:48)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$162(LauncherImpl.java:863)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$175(PlatformImpl.java:326)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$null$173(PlatformImpl.java:295)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$174(PlatformImpl.java:294)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

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patrickfavcommented, Mar 16, 2016

As I wrote earlier, it seems to be an Mac/OpenJdk bug:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8089900

so it seems there isnt much I can do. If you like you can try the suggested workarounds in the ticket:

This seems to occur on the Mac when they have updated to java 8u25 from java 7. The users have seen this issue when using both Mac OS X 10.10 and 10.9.5. Interestingly both users seemed to have Microsoft Office fonts installed. One user resolved the issue by “Restoring Standard Fonts” in the Font Book application.

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patrickfavcommented, Oct 5, 2017

Closing, since looks like edge case issue