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Bug#674415: arduino: Cannot start arduino IDE, java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'r'

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Witold Baryluk

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May 24, 2012, 9:40:03 AM5/24/12
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Package: arduino
Version: 1:1.0.1+dfsg-1
Severity: important

I just installed arduino and few other tools using apt-get and this is what I
get

baryluk@sredniczarny ~/ > arduino
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'r'
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.compile(SimpleDateFormat.java:769)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.initialize(SimpleDateFormat.java:576)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(SimpleDateFormat.java:501)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(SimpleDateFormat.java:476)
at processing.app.tools.Archiver.init(Archiver.java:59)
at processing.app.Editor.createToolMenuItem(Editor.java:859)
at processing.app.Editor.addInternalTools(Editor.java:885)
at processing.app.Editor.buildToolsMenu(Editor.java:660)
at processing.app.Editor.buildMenuBar(Editor.java:476)
at processing.app.Editor.<init>(Editor.java:205)
at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:704)
at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:669)
at processing.app.Base.handleNew(Base.java:565)
at processing.app.Base.<init>(Base.java:305)
at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:194)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.awt.Container.addImpl(Container.java:1045)
at java.awt.Container.add(Container.java:365)
at javax.swing.JPopupMenu.add(JPopupMenu.java:264)
at javax.swing.JMenu.add(JMenu.java:562)
at processing.app.Editor.addInternalTools(Editor.java:885)
at processing.app.Editor.buildToolsMenu(Editor.java:660)
at processing.app.Editor.buildMenuBar(Editor.java:476)
at processing.app.Editor.<init>(Editor.java:205)
at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:704)
at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:669)
at processing.app.Base.handleNew(Base.java:565)
at processing.app.Base.<init>(Base.java:305)
at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:194)



And nothing happens. No CPU or disk activity, no windows showing up. Nothing.

baryluk@sredniczarny$ > ps aux | egrep 'java|ardu'
baryluk 4389 0.0 0.0 4332 1304 pts/2 S+ 14:18 0:00 /bin/bash
/usr/bin/arduino
baryluk 4393 0.6 1.4 437872 29640 pts/2 Sl+ 14:18 0:02 java
-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel
processing.app.Base


It is sid, and I have nothing custom installed releated to the arduino.

baryluk@sredniczarny ~/ > java -version
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)
baryluk@sredniczarny ~/ >


The same happens after uninstalling sun-java6-jre (and all sun-* packages), and
using openjdk-6-jre.

baryluk@sredniczarny ~/ > java -version
java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.1) (6b24-1.11.1-6)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode, sharing)


Regards,
Witek



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages arduino depends on:
ii arduino-core 1:1.0.1+dfsg-1
ii default-jre [java6-runtime] 1:1.6-47
ii libjna-java 3.2.7-4
ii librxtx-java 2.2pre2-10
ii openjdk-6-jre [java6-runtime] 6b24-1.11.1-6
ii sun-java6-jre [java6-runtime] 6.26-3

Versions of packages arduino recommends:
ii extra-xdg-menus 1.0-4
ii policykit-1 0.105-1

arduino suggests no packages.

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Scott Howard

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May 25, 2012, 5:50:03 PM5/25/12
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tags 674415 unreproducible
thanks



On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Witold Baryluk
<bar...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> wrote:

> I just installed arduino and few other tools using apt-get and this is what I
> get
>

> And nothing happens. No CPU or disk activity, no windows showing up. Nothing.


I can't reproduce this on a debian wheezy machine (using the sid
package), ubuntu 11.10, or 11.04. All machines start the IDE and add
the correct permissions, if necessary. I'd like to get to the bottom
of this, but don't know where it has gone wrong. I'll try to set up
sid machine to see what's up, perhaps a bug in another package that
hasn't transitioned to testing yet?
Thanks.
~Scott

Scott Howard

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Jun 2, 2012, 5:10:01 PM6/2/12
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On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dariusz Bandzarewicz
<da...@bonzo.lublin.pl> wrote:
> Dnia piątek, 25 maja 2012 o 23:40:37 napisałeś:
>> tags 674415 unreproducible
>> thanks
> I have the same error.
> It is reproducible in Polish locale. In English work OK.
>
> --
> Darek

Thank you! I know upstream has implemented new language support in
this release. Do you get this error with the upstream code from
arduino.cc? (i.e. is this bug in Debian changes or in the original
code?)

Scott Howard

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Jun 3, 2012, 12:30:01 PM6/3/12
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tags 674415 - unreproducible + upstream
forwarded 674415 http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=944
Thank you


Thanks for the testing [1], it appears to be a bug in the upstream
code. I have forwarded a bug to:
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=944

Please check out that bug, add additional info there. Communications
about fixing the bug will move over to the above link so we can fix
this for Arduino users everywhere.

Thank you again!
Cheers,
Scott



[1]
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dariusz Bandzarewicz <da...@bonzo.lublin.pl>
Date: Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#674415: arduino: Cannot start arduino IDE,
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'r'
To: Scott Howard <showa...@gmail.com>


Dnia sobota, 2 czerwca 2012 o 22:59:00 napisałeś:
> Thank you! I know upstream has implemented new language support in
> this release. Do you get this error with the upstream code from
> arduino.cc? (i.e. is this bug in Debian changes or in the original
> code?)
Yes, arduino-1.0.1 from arduino.cc also does not work in Polish locale.

--
Darek

Scott Howard

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Jun 3, 2012, 2:30:02 PM6/3/12
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Here's a temporary fix:
http://rc-fpv.pl/viewtopic.php?t=8044&sid=8b7d268f7065b2e8c1e9398c5064ec15

And another bug report:
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=942&sort=-id%20type

Witold Baryluk

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Jun 4, 2012, 11:50:02 PM6/4/12
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Hi,

thanks at looking at this problem.

You are right that it is connected to polish locale, and I can connfirm
that this is locale dependent.

'env LC_ALL=C arduino' starts just fine, but 'arduino (with my default
LC_ALL=pl_PL.UTF-8), shows error and doesn't starts.

Any idea what this 'r' in patterns is, and why it is different in Polish
locale?

Regards,
Witek

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Witold Baryluk

Scott Howard

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Jun 5, 2012, 12:40:02 AM6/5/12
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Witold Baryluk
<bar...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks at looking at this problem.
>
> You are right that it is connected to polish locale, and I can connfirm
> that this is locale dependent.
>
> 'env LC_ALL=C arduino' starts just fine, but 'arduino (with my default
> LC_ALL=pl_PL.UTF-8), shows error and doesn't starts.
>
> Any idea what this 'r' in patterns is, and why it is different in Polish
> locale?

The string was "mmddyy" standing for two digit month, day, and year.
The polish translator translated the string into: "rrmmdd" where r =
rok. Java couldn't match "r" (rok) to month day or year, so it just
crashed.

mmddyy shouldn't have been translated, so they just removed the
translation to fix it.

~Scott

Witold Baryluk

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Jun 5, 2012, 1:00:02 AM6/5/12
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On 06-05 00:35, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Witold Baryluk
> <bar...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks at looking at this problem.
> >
> > You are right that it is connected to polish locale, and I can connfirm
> > that this is locale dependent.
> >
> > 'env LC_ALL=C arduino' starts just fine, but 'arduino (with my default
> > LC_ALL=pl_PL.UTF-8), shows error and doesn't starts.
> >
> > Any idea what this 'r' in patterns is, and why it is different in Polish
> > locale?
>
> The string was "mmddyy" standing for two digit month, day, and year.
> The polish translator translated the string into: "rrmmdd" where r =
> rok. Java couldn't match "r" (rok) to month day or year, so it just
> crashed.
>
> mmddyy shouldn't have been translated, so they just removed the
> translation to fix it.
>
> ~Scott
Hi,

Ah, so simple. Good to know problem is solved upstream and thanks for
your explanation. But I think in Polish locale it should be changed to
"yymmdd" anyway - English way of writing dates is akward ;)

BTW. <java-hating>C-ish strfmtime with its "%m%d%y" would be much safer
probably - it would have smaller change of getting incidently
translated, due presence of % signs ;D</off>

Kindly regards,
Witek

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