: Users of the VM Desktop Client GUI on AIX and Linux can download a HotFix for this issue from KB doc P2770 . The patch replaces the Java Runtime Engine (JRE) used by he GUI with one that does not have the problem.
... and closed the GUI in this state, the GUI will crash or ... ... Following that, download the file vm ... Download the file vm_8211_DEF170819.tar ... To confirm the patch was correctly installed, go to the Help -> About Serena PVCS Version Mananger screen of the desktop client GUI . ... GUI crashes on startup if last session was closed in recursive view: vm_patch8211_DEF170819.jar ... For UNIX/ Linux , logging in as a different user can adversely affect setuid mode, if enabled. ... For UNIX/ Linux :
When attempting to launch the desktop client GUI on Linux , by executing "pvcsvmux", an error similar to the following is shown: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/pvcs/vm/common/java/linux/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Unless you are running the VM GUI in debug mode (pvcsvmux -d), the stdout channel is closed because we are launching the GUI in background mode and want to reduce its chattiness. Unfortunately there are a number of critical error messages that are sent via stdout, all of which effectively fail to get displayed. Example:
The GUI desktop could lock up on Red Hat 6 EL w hile working with a File Server-based Project Database, especially after the GUI window loses and then regains focus.
The attached HotFix solves the following issue in VM 8.5.3: DEF244914: GUI : Non-Windows: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null source The HotFix should be installed on AIX and Linux systems running the Serena PVCS Version Manager
