Bug#870103: freeplane: a Java (knopflerfish) exception will prevent freeplane from starting

[Sophoklis Goumas]

Package: freeplane
Version: 1.5.18-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hello, freeplane does NOT start due to a Java (knopflerfish) exception.

Here is the output of trying to start it from CLI:

$ freeplane
org.knopflerfish.framework.readonly=true
org.knopflerfish.gosg.jars=reference:file:/usr/share/freeplane/core/
org.freeplane.user.dir=/home/olspookishmagus
org.freeplane.basedirectory=/usr/share/freeplane
java.security.policy=/usr/share/freeplane/freeplane.policy
org.osgi.framework.storage=/usr/share/freeplane/fwdir
Knopflerfish OSGi framework launcher, version <unknown>
Copyright 2003-2016 Knopflerfish. All Rights Reserved.
See http://www.knopflerfish.org for more information.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: xargs loading failed: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Didn't find xargs file: /usr/share/freeplane/fwdir/fwprops.xargs
at org.knopflerfish.framework.Main.loadArgs(Main.java:1373)
at org.knopflerfish.framework.Main.expandArgs(Main.java:907)
at org.knopflerfish.framework.Main.handleArgs(Main.java:480)
at org.knopflerfish.framework.Main.start(Main.java:224)
at org.knopflerfish.framework.Main.main(Main.java:156)
at org.freeplane.launcher.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:127)
at org.freeplane.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:80)
at org.freeplane.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:67)

Sophoklis

-- Package-specific info:
[debug] /usr/bin/freeplane: Found JAVA_HOME = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64'
[debug] /usr/bin/freeplane: Found JAVA_CMD = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java'
DEBUG: Freeplane parameters are ''.
DEBUG: Linux sojourn 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.18-1 (2017-03-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
DEBUG: Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie)
Release: 8.9
Codename: jessie
DEBUG: The following DEB packages are installed:
ii freeplane 1.5.18-1 all Java program for working with Mind Maps
DEBUG: Link '/usr/bin/freeplane' resolved to '/usr/share/freeplane/freeplane.sh'.
DEBUG: Freeplane Directory is '/usr/share/freeplane'.
DEBUG: Calling: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
-Xmx512m
-Dorg.freeplane.basedirectory=/usr/share/freeplane
-Dorg.freeplane.userfpdir=/home/olspookishmagus/.config/freeplane
-Dorg.freeplane.old_userfpdir=/home/olspookishmagus/.freeplane
-Dorg.freeplane.globalresourcedir=/usr/share/freeplane/resources
-Dswing.systemlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
-Dorg.freeplane.os.lib.ext=/usr/share/java
-Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D
-jar
/usr/share/freeplane/freeplanelauncher.jar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages freeplane depends on:
ii default-jre [java7-runtime] 2:1.8-59
ii groovy 2.4.8-1
ii javahelp2 2.0.05.ds1-9
ii jmapviewer 2.2+dfsg-2
ii libbatik-java 1.8-4
ii libcommons-codec-java 1.10-1
ii libcommons-io-java 2.5-1
ii libcommons-lang-java 2.6-6
ii libfop-java 1:2.1-6
ii libidw-java 1.6.1-1
ii libjaxp1.3-java 1.3.05-2
ii libjgoodies-forms-java 1.9.0-3
ii libjlatexmath-java 1.0.3-1
ii libjsyntaxpane-java 0.9.6~r156-6
ii libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java 5.2.0-2
ii libmnemonicsetter-java 0.5-1
ii librhino-java 1.7.7.1-1
ii libxerces2-java 2.11.0-7
ii libxml-commons-external-java 1.4.01-2
ii openjdk-8-jre [java7-runtime] 8u141-b15-3
ii simplyhtml 0.16.18-1

Versions of packages freeplane recommends:
ii java-wrappers 0.1.28
ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1

Versions of packages freeplane suggests:
pn freeplane-scripting-api <none>

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