tail: cannot open `+368' for reading: No such file or directory

[yinglcs]

I am trying to install a Java software package on Fedora 6, but it fails with 'tail: cannot open `+368' for reading: No such file or directory' Can you please tell me how to fix it?

$ ./jwsdp-2_0-unix.sh

For help, type './jwsdp-2_0-unix.sh -help'

Using /var/tmp as temporary directory...
Searching for Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition...
tail: cannot open `+368' for reading: No such file or directory
Initializing InstallShield Wizard...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: JWSDP

[Kingtu]

I'm having a similar problem. Did you ever figure it out?

[markkuk]

The script probably uses the old syntax for the "tail" command. Set the environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 to use the compatibility mode by:

$ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
$ ./jwsdp-2_0-unix.sh

[Kingtu]

It works!!!!! Thanks for your help

[aguizar]

In Fedora 15, and possibly previous versions that ship with OpenJDK 6 (reported to have been introduced in Fedora 9), setting the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variable is not enough anymore.

After setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 the following error appears.

The wizard cannot continue because of the following error: could not load wizard specified in /wizard.inf (104)

Running the jwsdp install script as shown below will print the error cause.

sh jwsdp-2_0-unix.sh -is:debug 1

In my case the output is:

com.jxml.quick.QPE; lineNumber: 0; columnNumber: 0; java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.beans.editors.BoolEditor

followed by a stack trace.

In my computer, the install script is detecting and using OpenJDK 6 to run the JWSDP installer. Unfortunately it seems to rely on this sun.beans.editors.BoolEditor class which is not part of the Java API. The rt.jar shipped with OpenJDK 6 includes sun.beans.editors.BooleanEditor but not BoolEditor.

My solution was to tell the installer to use Sun JDK 5 to run the JWSDP installer, as follows.

sh jwsdp-2_0-unix.sh -is:javahome /etc/alternatives/jre_1.5.0

If needed, replace /etc/alternatives/jre_1.5.0 with your Sun JDK 5 home directory.