problems with starting tvbrowser

[rmet0815]

after installing the tvbrowser, i try to start it but get the following error (On redhat fedora 7 linux) (location netherlands):

Starting TV-Browser...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
Suitable java version found [java = 1.5.0]
Configuring environment...
Loading TV-Browser:
java -Xms16m -Xmx128m -Djava.library.path="/home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3" -Dpropertiesfile=linux.properties -jar tvbrowser.jar '-nosplash'
command line options:
- minimized The main window will be minimized after start up
- nosplash No splash screen during start up

4:08:40 PM INFO: Try to load settings from a previous version of TV-Browser
4:08:40 PM INFO: No previous version of TV-Browser found - using default user settings
4:08:40 PM INFO: Using timezone GMT+01:00
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/BlogThisPlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/PrintPlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: SweDBTvDataService initieras
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/SweDBTvDataService.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/EMailPlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/CapturePlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/CalendarExportPlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/ShowviewPlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/RadioTimesDataService.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/ListViewPlugin.jar
4:08:40 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/ClipboardPlugin.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/TvBrowserDataService.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/TVRaterPlugin.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/NewsPlugin.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/WebPlugin.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/SimpleMarkerPlugin.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loaded plugin /home/rmetzger/rudy/tvbrowser-2.5.3/plugins/I18NPlugin.jar
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loading TV listings service...
4:08:41 PM INFO: SweDBTvDataService setting directory to /home/rmetzger/.tvbrowser/tvdata/swedbtvdataservice.SweDBTvDataService
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loading settings in SweDBTvDataService
4:08:41 PM INFO: Finnished loading settings for SweDBTvDataService
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loading settings in RadioTimesDataService
4:08:41 PM INFO: Finnished loading settings for RadioTimesBackstageDataService
4:08:41 PM INFO: Group file 'groups.txt' does not exist
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'main' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'bodostv' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'others' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'radio' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'digital' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'austria' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM WARNING: No channels available for group 'local' no channellist available?
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loading Look&Feel...
4:08:41 PM INFO: setting look and feel to com.jgoodies.looks.plastic.Plastic3DLookAndFeel
4:08:41 PM INFO: Deleting expired TV listings...
4:08:41 PM INFO: Loading plugins...
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.blogthisplugin.BlogThisPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.printplugin.PrintPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.emailplugin.EMailPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.captureplugin.CapturePlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.calendarexportplugin.CalendarExportPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.showviewplugin.ShowviewPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.listviewplugin.ListViewPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.clipboardplugin.ClipboardPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.tvraterplugin.TVRaterPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.newsplugin.NewsPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.webplugin.WebPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.simplemarkerplugin.SimpleMarkerPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Activating plugin java.i18nplugin.I18NPlugin
4:08:41 PM INFO: Checking TV listings inventory...
4:08:41 PM INFO: Starting up...
4:13:41 PM INFO: Channel Settings (day light saving time corrections/icons)
Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.lang.NullPointerException
at tvbrowser.TVBrowser.flushSettings(TVBrowser.java:667)
at tvbrowser.TVBrowser$2.run(TVBrowser.java:475)
Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The table model must be used in the Swing event thread (use SwingUtilities.invokeLater())
at tvbrowser.ui.programtable.DefaultProgramTableModel.checkThread(DefaultProgramTableModel.java:537)
at tvbrowser.ui.programtable.DefaultProgramTableModel.setChannels(DefaultProgramTableModel.java:167)
at tvbrowser.ui.programtable.DefaultProgramTableModel.<init>(DefaultProgramTableModel.java:91)
at tvbrowser.ui.mainframe.MainFrame.<init>(MainFrame.java:244)
at tvbrowser.ui.mainframe.MainFrame.getInstance(MainFrame.java:665)
at tvbrowser.TVBrowser$3.run(TVBrowser.java:486)
TV-Browser TERMINATED.

[bodo]

What Java do you use? We only support Sun Java.

[Gast]

[xxx]$ java --version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)

Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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Well, this might be the cause then. Thanx for the reply!

[Siggi]

Hi,

this is the wrong Java version.

TVBrowser support only min. SUN Java 1.5.

Please install this version.

See you.