javafx

One of the applications we recently build on IntelliJ IDEA was using JavaFX.

When executing the application from inside IntelliJ, it would work as expected and load the GUI.
On the other hand, when executing the jar file from the terminal, we would get the following error:

$ java -jar hello.jar 
Graphics Device initialization failed for :  es2, sw
Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer.getInstance(QuantumRenderer.java:280)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.init(QuantumToolkit.java:221)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:205)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:209)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:675)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:337)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:328)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.init(QuantumRenderer.java:94)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.run(QuantumRenderer.java:124)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: No toolkit found
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:217)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:209)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:675)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:337)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:328)
	... 5 more

As the above information was not very helpful, we executed the jar again using the -Dprism.verbose=true directive to get more information from the error.

$ java -Dprism.verbose=true -jar hello.jar 
Prism pipeline init order: es2 sw 
Using java-based Pisces rasterizer
Using dirty region optimizations
Not using texture mask for primitives
Not forcing power of 2 sizes for textures
Using hardware CLAMP_TO_ZERO mode
Opting in for HiDPI pixel scaling
Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
Loading ES2 native library ... prism_es2
GraphicsPipeline.createPipeline failed for com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /home/user/Projects/Java/hello/out/artifacts/amd64/libprism_es2.so
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1827)
	at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:809)
	at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1086)
	at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraryFullPath(NativeLibLoader.java:201)
	at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraryInternal(NativeLibLoader.java:94)
	at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibrary(NativeLibLoader.java:39)
	at com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline.lambda$static$0(ES2Pipeline.java:68)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline.(ES2Pipeline.java:50)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
	at com.sun.prism.GraphicsPipeline.createPipeline(GraphicsPipeline.java:187)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.init(QuantumRenderer.java:91)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.run(QuantumRenderer.java:124)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
*** Fallback to Prism SW pipeline
Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline
GraphicsPipeline.createPipeline failed for com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /home/user/Projects/Java/hello/out/artifacts/amd64/libprism_sw.so
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1827)
	at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:809)
	at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1086)
	at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraryFullPath(NativeLibLoader.java:201)
	at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraryInternal(NativeLibLoader.java:94)
	at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibrary(NativeLibLoader.java:39)
	at com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline.lambda$static$0(SWPipeline.java:42)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at com.sun.prism.sw.SWPipeline.(SWPipeline.java:41)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
	at com.sun.prism.GraphicsPipeline.createPipeline(GraphicsPipeline.java:187)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.init(QuantumRenderer.java:91)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.run(QuantumRenderer.java:124)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Graphics Device initialization failed for :  es2, sw
Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer.getInstance(QuantumRenderer.java:280)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.init(QuantumToolkit.java:221)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:205)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:209)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:675)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:337)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:328)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.init(QuantumRenderer.java:94)
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.run(QuantumRenderer.java:124)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: No toolkit found
	at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:217)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:209)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:675)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:337)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:328)
	... 5 more

From the new log, we could see that the application was trying to load some .so (libprism_es2.so and libprism_sw.so) files that were not available in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
We used find, to locate them:

find / -name "libprism_es2.so" 2>/dev/null;

Then we updated the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to include the new path

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/idea-IC/jre64/lib/amd64/;

java -jar hello.jar;

Note: Here we used the copies that were available in our IntelliJ IDEA installation.
It is not recommended as you need to deploy them per machine, but in our case it was OK as the development machine was the actual machine to use the tool as well.