VisualVM does not Start on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

VisualVM does not start after installing it with sudo apt install visualvm on Ubuntu 18.04. It simply does nothing.

Starting it with visualvm -J-Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging-jconsole.properties yields the following error message:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no splashscreen in java.library.path
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1867)
  at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:870)
  at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1122)
  at java.awt.SplashScreen$1.run(SplashScreen.java:124)
  at java.awt.SplashScreen$1.run(SplashScreen.java:122)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at java.awt.SplashScreen.getSplashScreen(SplashScreen.java:121)
  at org.netbeans.core.startup.Splash.<init>(Unknown Source)
  at org.netbeans.core.startup.Splash.getInstance(Unknown Source)
  at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Unknown Source)
  at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(Unknown Source)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) 

The problem persists after installing the JDK with sudo apt install default-jdk.

Bathos

That looks like a bug in the Ubuntu package. A library is missing, misnamed, in the wrong place, or something. Report it via the Ubuntu LaunchPad tracker. – Gradely

Answer 1

I figured it out myself. It had the wrong version of OpenJDK installed. The "default-jdk" package on Ubuntu seems to be the "headless" version (openjdk-8-jdk-headless). In order to get VisualVM to work I uninstalled the headless version of the OpenJDK and installed OpenJDK minus headless.

sudo apt remove openjdk-8-jdk-headless
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

Bathos