[ale] ClassNotFoundException even though the class is there

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Jim Philips wrote:
> I've been using GCalDaemon to sync the calendar in Kontact with my 
> Google Calendar. I noticed that it hadn't really synced lately. So, I 
> checked the file where it stores synced data. It hasn't updated since 
> July 2. Next I tried to start GCalDaemon from the command line:
> 
> rebus at rebus-desktop:/usr/local/sbin/GCALDaemon/bin$ ./standalone-start.sh
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java/lang/ClassNotFoundException: error in opening JAR file 
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/lib/rt.jar
> 
> So I do:
> 
> cd /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/lib/
> 
> Sure enough, rt.jar is there, but it was updated on July 2. What would 
> cause Java to say the class is not found?


That is a rather odd ClassNotFoundException.  It should mention the
class it was trying to load.  What is in standalone-start.sh?

-- JK