JOSM won't download data from OSM

[Xuacu]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open JOSM
2. Try to download some data by selection with a small bounding box in the map
3. Resetting all values to default in advanced preferences (including Oauth credentials) have no effect

What is the expected result?

Data download to work in JOSM

What happens instead?

Error dialog offering to file a bug

Additional information

This has been happening to me since some months ago. New JOSM versions don't fix this issue as I have expected. WebStart .jnlp also fails in the same way.

Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2014-02-27 09:27:48
Last Changed Author: simon04
Revision: 6891
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2014-02-27 08:25:03 +0100 (Thu, 27 Feb 2014)
Last Changed Rev: 6891

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (6891 en) Linux Ubuntu 13.10
Memory Usage: 200 MB / 876 MB (136 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.7.0_51, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM


java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:1272)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:1247)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.doRealRun(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:87)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.run(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:150)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) must be non-zero
	at java.awt.image.ReplicateScaleFilter.<init>(ReplicateScaleFilter.java:102)
	at java.awt.Image.getScaledInstance(Image.java:173)
	at sun.awt.CustomCursor.<init>(CustomCursor.java:69)
	at sun.awt.X11CustomCursor.<init>(X11CustomCursor.java:43)
	at sun.awt.X11.XCustomCursor.<init>(XCustomCursor.java:42)
	at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.createCustomCursor(XToolkit.java:1133)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.tools.ImageProvider.getCursor(ImageProvider.java:807)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.mapmode.SelectAction.<init>(SelectAction.java:170)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MapFrame.<init>(MapFrame.java:208)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main.createMapFrame(Main.java:641)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main.addLayer(Main.java:631)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.downloadtasks.DownloadOsmTask$DownloadTask.finish(DownloadOsmTask.java:269)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable$1.run(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:90)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:241)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:733)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:694)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:692)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:703)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:154)
	at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport$2.run(WaitDispatchSupport.java:182)
	at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport$4.run(WaitDispatchSupport.java:221)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport.enter(WaitDispatchSupport.java:219)
	at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:1082)
	at java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:1651)
	at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:1603)
	at java.awt.Window.setVisible(Window.java:1014)
	at java.awt.Dialog.setVisible(Dialog.java:1005)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.progress.PleaseWaitProgressMonitor$4.run(PleaseWaitProgressMonitor.java:172)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:251)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:733)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:694)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:692)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:703)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #9209.
From ticket:9209:

The problem was with Mir/XMir. I removed unity-system-compositor and the mir/xmir packages, and JOSM works now. Thank you.
For the record the crash had occurred with both webstart and the ubuntu package.

[Xuacu]

Thank you.
I've been using the automatic report tool, so I didn't realize this was a known issue with an easy workaround.