Thanks Richard.  I tried running the export command like you suggested, but I still get the same error message.

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From: Richard Megginson [mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com]
To: golden@cnt.org
Cc: fedora-directory-users@redhat.com
Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:03:01 -0600
Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Cant't Start Console

Try
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib
then ./startconsole
does the problem go away?

Golden Butler wrote:

> Thanks for the help. I've installed the IBM java kit and successfully
> exported JAVA_HOME to the install path.
> Now when I run ./startconsole, I get the following error:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
> at
> com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel.initialize(WindowsLookAndFeel.java:154)
> at
> com.netscape.management.nmclf.SuiLookAndFeel.initialize(Unknown Source)
> at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:424)
> at
> com.netscape.management.client.console.Console.common_init(Unknown Source)
> at
> com.netscape.management.client.console.Console.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at com.netscape.management.client.console.Console.main(Unknown
> Source)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:2171)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2006)
> at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:824)
> at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:910)
> at
> sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:76)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged1(Native Method)
> at
> java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:287)
> at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1488)
> at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1511)
> ... 6 more
>
> Is this error saying something with the Java gui is screwed up?
>
> - Delamatrix
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Richard Megginson [mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com]
> *To:* golden@cnt.org, General discussion list for the Fedora
> Directory server project. [mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com]
> *Sent:* Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:09:19 -0600
> *Subject:* Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Cant't Start Console
>
> Golden Butler wrote:
>
> > I've just installed fedora directory server on my fedora core 4
> > machine. The installation was a breeze, but when I go to start the
> > console, I get the following error:
> >
> > ./startconsole: Your JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set.
> > Please set it appropriately.
>
> export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java e.g. on my Fedora Core 4 system
> with the
> RHEL4 IBM 1.4.2 JDK:
> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.2
>
> >
> > I've confirmend that I indeed have java run time installed. Is
> there
> > some config somewhere that I need to set or is ignoring? Any
> help or
> > suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks
> >
> > - Delamatrix
> >
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