Java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: running tomcat on java headless?

Question

Dear all,
I'm using the iText library to generate pdfs from a database on the fly. Whenever I use some of it's features that require simple things like java.awt.Color, I get an java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError as shown:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.18/jre/lib/amd64/libawt.so: libmlib_image.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1668)
        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:822)
        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:993)
        at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1509)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1530)
        at java.awt.Color.<clinit>(Color.java:250)
        at tablereport.processRequest(tablereport.java:55)
        at tablereport.doGet(tablereport.java:130)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)After some research and verifying that libawt.so physically exists I read somewhere that whenever java is installed no a linux box without x (in my case it's a remote vps) java omits certain graphics related libraries like AWT (naturally).
I also read that you can run java headless to avoid the dependencies to X. Now is there a way to run tomcat (or add variables to tomcat's startup.sh) to avoid having these dependencies?
Thanks for your help,
William

Answer 1

[Googling the exception|http://www.google.com/search?q=java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError+at+java.awt.Color.%3Cclinit%3E%28Color.java%3A250%29+tomcat] learns me it's a bug in the mentioned Tomcat + JDK combo.
Upgrade to the latest if possible.