BPE and Setup crashes.

Question

When I try to launch the BPE or "lh setup" on a freshly unzipped IDM 8.1 Patch 2 or Patch 3, then the setup tool window can be seen flickering shortly and then the process just ends and drops me back to DOS box. The same happens for the BPE right after selecting an environment folder. The BPE window seems to initialize, flickers shortly on the screen and then the java process just quits.
I do not get any error mesage or exception. This only happens in 8.1 Patch 2 and 3 - when I try the same in 8.1.0,it just works as expected. Java version is 1.5
However, when trying to launch the BPE or setup on Java 6, I get the following exception:
bin\lh setup
Starting internal database server ...
DB Server @ jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://127.0.0.1:52496/idm
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(Unknown Source)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(Unknown Source)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(Unknown Source)
       at java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(Unknown Source)
       at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$ComTask.execute(Unknown Source)
       at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFolderColumns(Unknown Source)
       at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolderManager.getFolderColumns(Unknown Source)
       at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getFolderColumns(Unknown Source)
       at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.getFolderColumns(Unknown Source)
       at sun.swing.FilePane$DetailsTableModel.updateColumnInfo(Unknown Source)
       at sun.swing.FilePane$DetailsTableModel.contentsChanged(Unknown Source)
       at javax.swing.AbstractListModel.fireContentsChanged(Unknown Source)
       at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicDirectoryModel.fireContentsChanged(Unknown Source)
       at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicDirectoryModel$DoChangeContents.run(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
       at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)The behavior is the same on 1.5 and 6 - the window flickers shortly and the process then just quits.. in case of Java 6, with the exception above.
I could verify this on Windows XP SP2 with Java 1.5 and 6.0 on seperate machines and also on Mac OS X 10.5 with java 1.5
In all cases I can launch an "lh console" fine and end up in "Startup" mode as expected. This just seems to affect the BPE and setup GUI.
Is this a known issue or am I missing something, any ideas?
thomas

Answer 1

Hi,
I had the same problem. I assume many people will have this problem so here's the fix:
System Details
IdM 8.1 Patch 2 (applies for patch 3 too)
JRE 1.6 Update 14
Issue Description
lh config command does not seem to be working. Installing another version of IdM 8.1 (without the patch) and connecting to the new repository seem to be working fine.
Solution
There a diffrance in Command.class in idmcommon\com\waveset\util. The diffrance is minor but it seem to be affecting the BPE.
*8.1 (no patch)*
package com.waveset.util;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.List;
// Referenced classes of package com.waveset.util:
//            CommandProcess
public class Command extends CommandProcess
    /* member class not found */
    class CommandRegister {}
    public Command()
    public List getLineOptions()
        List ret = super.getLineOptions();
        CommandProcess.LineOption opts[] = (new CommandRegister()).getLineOptions();
        for(int x = 0; x < opts.length; x++)
            ret.add(opts[x]);
        return ret;
    public static void main(String args[])
        try
            ClassLoader cl = getClassLoader();
            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(cl);
            Class cmd = Class.forName(com/waveset/util/Command.getName(), true, cl);
            Object instance = cmd.newInstance();
            Method run = cmd.getMethod("run", MAINPARAMETER_TYPES);
            run.invoke(instance, new Object[] {
                args
        catch(Exception e)
            printException(getRootException(e));
    public static final String code_id = "$Id: Command.java,v 1.25 2008/11/05 21:58:58 kd229373 Exp $";
}*8.1.0.2 (patched)*
package com.waveset.util;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.List;
// Referenced classes of package com.waveset.util:
//            CommandProcess
public class Command extends CommandProcess
    /* member class not found */
    class CommandRegister {}
    public Command()
    public List getLineOptions()
        List ret = super.getLineOptions();
        CommandProcess.LineOption opts[] = (new CommandRegister()).getLineOptions();
        for(int x = 0; x < opts.length; x++)
            ret.add(opts[x]);
        return ret;
    public static void main(String args[])
        int ret = -1;
        try
            ClassLoader cl = getClassLoader();
            Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(cl);
            Class cmd = Class.forName(com/waveset/util/Command.getName(), true, cl);
            Object instance = cmd.newInstance();
            Method run = cmd.getMethod("run", MAINPARAMETER_TYPES);
            run.invoke(instance, new Object[] {
                args
            ret = 0;
        catch(Exception e)
            printException(getRootException(e));
        System.exit(ret);
    public static final String code_id = "$Id: Command.java,v 1.25.8.1 2009/04/20 17:15:34 as118714 Exp $";
}The solution is copying the Command.class file from IdM 8.1 to IdM 8.1.0.2 or using a diffrent version of IdM BPE.
Regards,
R