Hello, The bug is closed so there is nothing to expect from OpenJDK. The solution must come from Debian or a new bug created. The Java version which introduced the regression is 10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 because it contains the fix to move accessibility.properties in the "conf" folder. The issue did not occur before because the configuration file enabling ATK wrapper was not found by openjdk. A few hours after this version was delivered by Ubuntu we started to receive a dozen of bug reports, until I delivered a JOSM hotfix mitigating the issue.
Patching openjdk with your try/catch proposal and making the ATK wrapper a Recommends sounds a good idea. Don't wait for openjdk guys for an answer: they simply don't care anymore with desktop technologies. Cheers, Vincent Le ven. 24 août 2018 à 11:47, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> a écrit : > Hello, > > Vincent Privat, le mer. 22 août 2018 21:01:16 +0200, a ecrit: > > Samuel, do you know when the root issue will be fixed in Java ATK > wrapper? > > The root issue is in openjdk, not the wrapper. Openjdk has apparently > removed the way that was used to load the wrapper, without apparently > making sure that another way was implemented. I have forwarded the issue > upstream > > http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8204862 > > but apparently they don't have the issue (I guess they don't actually > manage to enable the wrapper in the configuration file). > > > > > Since today we are spammed by bug reports from Linux Mint and Ubuntu > when > > > > people try to launch JOSM with the latest Java update > > > > (10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.1): > > Which version is introducing the issue exactly? AFAIK it's the whole > openjdk >= 9 which poses the problem. > > > Has it ever been considered that this package is made optional rather > than a > > strict dependency of openjdk-<n>-jre? > > The problem is not the dependency, but what openjdk itself is doing. ATM > it seems to be insisting on loading the wrapper even when it's not > available. I guess catching exceptions around > src/java.desktop/share/classes/java/awt/Toolkit.java's getDefaultToolkit > call to loadAssistiveTechnologies, to just print the exception but not > abort, would allow to make the dependency a Recommends only. > > Concerning actually managing to load the wrapper, see the backlog of > #900912. I have commited to the git repo of java-atk-wrapper what is > said to be needed for making it loadable with openjdk 9 and later, but > as I said there, we still seem to be lacking in openjdk a path where the > wrapper can be put for openjdk to find it. And it's been a month without > anybody answering. > > Samuel >
