OpenJDK fails, when no fonts are installed on RHEL 6

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Issue

  • Application fails to run on OpenJDK, with below error on Linux.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at sun.awt.X11FontManager.getDefaultPlatformFont(X11FontManager.java:779)
    at sun.font.SunFontManager$2.run(SunFontManager.java:432)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.font.SunFontManager.<init>(SunFontManager.java:375)
    at sun.awt.X11FontManager.<init>(X11FontManager.java:32)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)
    at sun.font.FontManagerFactory$1.run(FontManagerFactory.java:83)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.font.FontManagerFactory.getInstance(FontManagerFactory.java:74)
    at java.awt.Font.<init>(Font.java:613)
    at java.awt.Font.createFont(Font.java:1023)
    at Test.main(Test.java:7)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 6.x
  • OpenJDK 7

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