Rendering chart from bootchart

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 21 May 2010 10:47 AM, Mike Park wrote:
>> And the java application supplied with bootchart generates
>> the following error.
>>
>>> $ java -jar /usr/share/java/bootchart.jar
>>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>> org/apache/commons/cli/ParseException
>>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>>> org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException
>>> � � � �at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
>>> � � � �at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>> � � � �at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
>>> � � � �at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
>>> � � � �at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
>>> � � � �at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264)
>>> � � � �at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)
>>> Could not find the main class: org.bootchart.Main. Program will exit.
>>
>> What seems to be wrong?
>
> Yeah, actually, you want to just run the provided /usr/bin/bootchart
> script since that sets up the config properly:
>
> [emparq at bart:~]$ bootchart
> Parsing /var/log/bootchart.tgz
> Wrote image: ./bootchart.png
>
> ...trying to launch it from just the .jar itself results in that error
> you mentioned. I haven't explored any other way to generate my
> bootchart, but running the script definitely works for me.
>

Thanks a lot Mike! This works like a charm now. :)

>
> --Mike

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Suvayu

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