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Hedley
Hedley

Reputation: 1092

UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lcms in system library path: /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk/lib

We are using Apache pdfbox. After switching from Java 8 on RedHat Linux, to Java 11 or Java 17 on Alpine linux, we get the following error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument at 
com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout.PdfBoxRenderer.<init>(PdfBoxRenderer.java:118) at
com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout.PdfRendererBuilder.buildPdfRenderer(PdfRendererBuilder 
com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout.PdfRendererBuilder.run(PdfRendererBuilder.java:35) at

The root error is:

UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lcms in system library path: /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk/lib

Upvotes: 0

Views: 718

Answers (1)

Hedley
Hedley

Reputation: 1092

The root cause was that the default JRE for Alpine is a "headless" distribution that does not include graphics libraries such as the lcms library. To fix the issue we updated our docker build instructions to install the non headless version:

ENV JAVA_VERSION 17.0.3_p7-r2
# use full version of JRE!    
RUN apk add --no-cache curl openjdk17-jre

If you want to see the differences between the openjdk17-jre and open-jdk17-headless, you can do so at:

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages

Note that the "non headless" package is additional. i.e. the base JRE package is installed first, then the non headless package simply adds the graphics libraries.

Upvotes: 3

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