Jmeter is not starting in mac osx 10.10

Question

Im java 6 user and when I try to start jmeter2.12, I try to start using 2 commands which is $sh jmeter, $sh jmeter.sh and fail. I overcome the below error in both attempts:

thushara@Thusharas-MacBook-Pro: ~/Documents/greg/apache-jmeter-2.12/bin $ sh jmeter

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _CGContextSetAllowsAcceleration
  Referenced from: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_65-b14-462.jdk/Contents/Libraries/libawt.jnilib
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices

dyld: Symbol not found: _CGContextSetAllowsAcceleration
  Referenced from: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_65-b14-462.jdk/Contents/Libraries/libawt.jnilib
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices

jmeter: line 136: 38351 Trace/BPT trap: 5       java $ARGS $JVM_ARGS $JMETER_OPTS -jar "$PRGDIR/ApacheJMeter.jar" "$@"

How should I start the jmeter in new mac osx 10.10?

Answer 1

This is an issue with Java on this new OS.

As per answer on mailing list, reinstall java:

• http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572

See also:

• OSX 10.10 and Eclipse Luna. Own App crashes when started from inside Eclipse