Bug 864252

Summary:	JON server fails to find JVM if JAVA_HOME path contains spaces
Product:	[JBoss] JBoss Operations Network	Reporter:	Larry O'Leary <loleary>
Component:	Core Server	Assignee:	RHQ Project Maintainer <rhq-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike Foley <mfoley>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	JON 3.0.0	CC:	dsteigne, loleary, mazz, myarboro
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	JON 3.2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	769604	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-05-24 19:37:33 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	769604
Bug Blocks:

Description Larry O'Leary 2012-10-09 01:31:05 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of RHQ Bug #769604 +++

Description of problem:
If the Windows JAVA_HOME Environment Variable or the RHQ_SERVER_JAVA_HOME variable contains spaces in the path it will fail to find the jvm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install JAVA on a windows box to a directory containing spaces
2.Either set the Windows JAVA_HOME Environment variable or edit the rhq-server.bat file to set the RHQ_SERVER_JAVA_HOME to the above installed JAVA
3.Run rhq-server.bat
  
Actual results:
Server does not start with Error can't find jvm

Expected results:
JON Server starts.

--- Additional comment from dsteigne on 2011-12-21 07:56:58 EST ---

Workaround is to use the Windows short name, C:\Progra~1\java\jdk1.6.0_30.

Comment 1 John Mazzitelli 2013-05-24 16:00:41 UTC

I need to know *exactly* what you set JAVA_HOME to.

I just tried it and the rhq-server.bat worked BUT! only if I did not wrap my env var value in quotes.

Things WORKED when I used this command line to set my JAVA_HOME:

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre7

If I echoed %JAVA_HOME% I saw this:

> echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Program Files\Java\jre7

Notice there are NO quotes in the value.

However, things FAILED to work when I did this:

set JAVA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Java\jre7"

> echo %JAVA_HOME%
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre7"

When I ran "rhq-server.bat status", I got this error message:

There is no JVM available.
Please set RHQ_SERVER_JAVA_HOME or RHQ_SERVER_JAVA_EXE_FILE_PATH appropriately.

Turn on debug and see what your script says. So do this:

set RHQ_SERVER_DEBUG=true

and then run rhq-server.bat again. You should see what values it wants to use. When using quotes in the JAVA_HOME value, you'll see something like this (which is wrong):

RHQ_SERVER_JAVA_EXE_FILE_PATH: "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7"\bin\java.exe

The quotes appear to be messed up.

So, in short, when you define JAVA_HOME, do NOT wrap the value in quotes.

I'm putting this with a NEEDINFO to the reporter to confirm this work. If it does, we should close this as NOTABUG.

Comment 2 Larry O'Leary 2013-05-24 19:37:33 UTC

You are correct. In the original case that raised this issue, JAVA_HOME was set as follows:

    set JAVA_HOME="C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_30"

I have updated the knowledge information and am marking this as NOTABUG.