The solaris_patch_installer aborted while attempting to apply one of the required Solaris patches on your system.

1. Write down the patchID of the last patch that the solaris_patch_installer tried to install.
2. Obtain a newer revision of that patch from http://sunsolve.sun.com, if one is available.
3. Install the new revision on your system using the patchadd utility. (If you are unfamiliar with or unsure about installing Solaris packages or the J2SE, v. 1.4.0 platform on your Solaris environment, contact your Solaris system administrator for assistance.)
4. Run the solaris_patch_installer again to ensure you have all the required Solaris 8 patches on your system.

Receipt of an error message similar to the following, after running the solaris_patch_installer on a newly installed Solaris 8 (update 7) environment:

# ./solaris_patch_installer

Solaris Patch Installer for J2SE, v.1.4.0
Installing 109147-14... successfully installed
Installing 108434-06...

...

Installing 108528-13... attempting to patch a package that is not installed
Installing 108652-51... successfully installed
Installing 108921-13... already applied
Installing 108940-40... successfully installed
Installing 108773-12... pkgadd failed
Cannot continue patch installation.
For more details, please look at /var/tmp/solaris_patch_installer.log

Run the solaris_patch_installer script a second time. If you continue to have problems, contact your Solaris system administrator.

Receipt of the following error message while installing the Forte for Java 4 IDE:
Error writing file = There may not be enough temporary disk space. Try using -is:tempdir to use a temporary directory on a partition with more disk space

Start the installer with the -is:tempdir command-line option, in order to specify a directory on a disk with more free space.

For example, in a Solaris operating environment, you might type the following at the command prompt:

$ ffj_ce_solsparc_en.bin -is:tempdir temporary-directory

The Forte for Java 4 installer fails and displays a message that there is not enough available disk space to use for installation. But, the filesystem you specified to use for installing the IDE has plenty of available disk space.

The filesystem you have specified may be symbolically linked to another filesystem whose large amount of disk space is not recognized. For example, in a Solaris environment, /export/home has 2 GB of space and / has 100 MB. The /opt directory is symbolically linked to /export/home. If you specified /opt/forte4j as the IDE installation directory, the Forte for Java 4 installer does not recognize the symbolic link to /export/home, which has 2 GB of available disk space. The installer only recognizes the / directory, which is the target directory for /opt and only has 100 MB.

To correct the problem, specify the IDE's installer to directly use the filesystem with the larger available disk space. For the above example, specify the /export/home as the installation directory.

Receipt of the following error message while installing the Forte for Java 4 IDE:
Error: Could not find JVM

Start the installer with the -is:javahome command-line option, in order to specify a directory on a disk with more free space.

For example, in a Solaris operating environment, type the following at the command prompt:

$ ffj_ce_solsparc_en.bin -is:javahome javahome

(Solaris or Linux environments only) The Forte for Java 4 installer looks like it is hung, after it was started. No messages are displayed.

You may not have set the DISPLAY environment variable correctly. If you are installing on your local system, the DISPLAY environment variable should be set to :0.0. If you are using a superuser (root) account or doing a remote installation, set your DISPLAY environment variable to your local system.

For example, to set the DISPLAY variable from a root account that is using a C-shell, type the following in the command window you used to log into the root account:

setenv DISPLAY your-local-host:0.0.

Run the installer again from the same command window.

The Forte for Java 4 IDE installer exits without installing the product. No messages are displayed.

These are the possible causes and solutions:

• The file you have downloaded from the Forte for Java 4 product download page is not complete. Download the file again and check that the size of the downloaded file is the same as the file size specified on the product download page. Run the IDE installer again.
• You have specified an invalid command-line parameter in the installer.sp file. Check the file and correct any incorrect command-line parameter setting. Run the IDE installer again.

The -is:tempdir command-line parameter is not working.

Make sure that you are using the correct syntax for the command-line parameter for the installer. For example, on a Solaris environment, the syntax is as follows:

ffj_ce_solsparc_en.bin -is:tempdir temporary-directory

Receipt of an error message similar to the following during the IDE startup in asupported Solaris environment:
Error: No J2SE was found at /usr/j2se/bin/java
ERROR: The following required 5.8 patches have not been installed on system "myserver": 106950-16 106327-11 106541-17

NOTE: You can download and install the J2SE[tm] and related Solaris[tm] patches from http://access1.sun.com/forte/.

Warning:Current runtime environment does not satisfy minimum requirements.

Install the J2SE, v. 1.4.0 platform on your system. For a Solaris 8 operating environment, include any necessary patches. Refer to for more information on installing this software on your system.

Receipt of the following error message after starting the IDE:
Error: Unable to load java.dll

Make sure there is no space in the name of the directory in which you have installed the J2SE, v. 1.3.1 or v. 1.4.0 platform.

Forte for Java 4 IDE is not pointing to the J2SE, v. 1.4.0 platform you had specified during the IDE installation and you receive an error message similar to the following:

ERROR: The J2SE[tm] 1.2.1 found at /usr/java1.2/bin/java cannot be used by the IDE. J2SE[tm] 1.4 is recommended.
NOTE: You can download and install the J2SE[tm] and related Solaris[tm] patches from http://access1.sun.com/forte/.

Warning:Current runtime environment does not satisfy minimum requirements.

Check the Java environment variables already set prior to starting the IDE and unset them.

The values of the $JAVA_PATH and $JDK_HOME environment variables override the value of the J2SE SDK path you specified during the IDE installation. You need to unset these environment variables or use the -jdkhome command-line option when starting the IDE.

The user directory is created in the wrong location in a Microsoft Windows system.

If you have previously installed any edition of the Forte for Java 4 IDE in a Windows environment, the location of the user directory is recorded in the Microsoft Windows Registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Sun Microsystems, Inc./Forte for Java/CE/4.0. This value is not deleted when you uninstall the Forte for Java 4 IDE. Therefore, when you install another version of the Forte for Java 4 IDE, the user directory specified in a previous Forte for Java 4 IDE installation is reused.

If you want to use a different location for the user directory, do the following:

1. Uninstall the Forte for Java 4 IDE.
2. In a command window, type regedit to start the Microsoft Windows Registry editor.
3. From the Registry editor, expand the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry and the keys for Software/Sun Microsystems, Inc./Forte for Java/CE/4.0
4. Right-click the UserDir value and choose Delete from the contextual menu.
5. Install the Forte for Java 4 IDE again.
6. After installation, start the Forte for Java 4 IDE and when you are prompted, specify a new location for the user directory.