Jmeter does not work on solaris, throws Invalid or corrupt jarfile ApacheJMeter.jar

Question

I have been running my jmeter instance from Windows and Linux using the same binary files and it works fine. After I copied the same files to solaris, it throws the error "Invalid or corrupt jarfile ApacheJMeter.jar" and exits.

I do not have the permissions to install the binaries directly using apt-get.

.../apache-jmeter-2.11/bin$ java -jar ApacheJMeter.jar Invalid or corrupt jarfile ApacheJMeter.jar

OS: Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 s10x_u9wos_14a X86 Jmeter: version 2.11 Java: version 1.6.0_21

Answer 1

Your ApacheJMeter.jar file is corrupted. Verify its checksum. On Solaris, you should get this output:

$ sum *.jar
48768 26 ApacheJMeter.jar

On Linux:

$ sum -s *.jar
48768 26 ApacheJMeter.jar

Answer 2

I had done a simple scp to copy the binary files from its working location on Linux to the Solaris machine. This evidently showed corruption when running sum -s *.jar.

I copied a tar archive of the binaries. Now corruption is not shown by sum command. .../apache-jmeter-2.11/bin$ sum *.jar 48768 26 ApacheJMeter.jar

However, I still see the corruption error. .../apache-jmeter-2.11/bin$ java -jar ApacheJMeter.jar Invalid or corrupt jarfile ApacheJMeter.jar