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