crash on load

[scearley]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. running the program

What is the expected result?
program opens

What happens instead?
program splash screen with "creating main gui" is displayed, activity bar at bottom of splash constantly moves, pop-up says to submit a bug bc of an unexpected error.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

Debian-Release: 0.0.svn4064-3
Build-Date: 2011-06-16 23:17:11
Revision: 4064
Is-Local-Build: true

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (4064 en)
Memory Usage: 119 MB / 1767 MB (85 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.6.0_27, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Operating system: Linux


java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't parse argument number: width
	at java.text.MessageFormat.makeFormat(MessageFormat.java:1356)
	at java.text.MessageFormat.applyPattern(MessageFormat.java:475)
	at java.text.MessageFormat.<init>(MessageFormat.java:367)
	at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:828)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.tools.I18n.tr(I18n.java:141)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.imagery.ImageryLayerInfo.loadDefaults(ImageryLayerInfo.java:76)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.preferences.ImageryPreference.initialize(ImageryPreference.java:839)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main.<init>(Main.java:238)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.<init>(MainApplication.java:59)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.main(MainApplication.java:231)

[rickmastfan67]

Update JOSM to a new build. That build you have is over 2 years old. The current "tested" version is r5990.

[stoecker]

Closed as duplicate of #8656.

[skyper]

Replying to scearley:

Debian-Release: 0.0.svn4064-3
Build-Date: 2011-06-16 23:17:11
Revision: 4064
Is-Local-Build: true

Where did you get this version from ?

Even running squeeze (oldstable) you should be able to install the version from wheezy (stable) or even from jessie (testing).