Symptoms
The administrative console does not start.
Trace
Admin Client Trace for WAS 3.5.x:
- From the WASHOME/bin directory invoke the
administrative console with the following:
adminclient debug hostname > absolutepath\client.txt 2>&1
Admin Client Trace for WAS 4.0.x:
- From the WASHOME/bin directory invoke the
administrative console with the following: adminclient.sh -v >
path/adminclient.out
Sample Output (from Admin Client Trace)
No remote host or port argument specified. This host and port 900 will be
used.
This command may be issued as: adminclient <host address <port
number>>
java.lang.Exception: Stack trace
at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:993)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults$ProxyLazyValue.createValue(UIDefaults.java:670)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(UIDefaults.java:145)
at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(MultiUIDefaults.java:46)
at com.ibm.ejs.sm.client.ui.Utils.setDefaultFonts(Utils.java:485)
at com.ibm.ejs.sm.client.ui.EJSConsole.main(EJSConsole.java:1226)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:158)
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.ibm.ejs.sm.client.ui.Utils.setDefaultFonts(Utils.java:487)
at com.ibm.ejs.sm.client.ui.EJSConsole.main(EJSConsole.java:1226)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:158)
The key part of this error is
com.ibm.ejs.sm.client.ui.Utils.setDefaultFonts
Solution:
Issue the following commands to start the WebSphere® Application Server
administrative console:
cd WASHOME/bin
export DISPLAY=<XwindowsDisplayName>:0
./adminclient.sh &
Notes:
- XwindowsDisplayName can be the fully-qualified machine name, or it can
be an IP address.
- The preceding commands are useable in a Korn or Bourne shell
interpreter.
- WASHOME and text in the angle brackets (< >) represent
values that you must provide.
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