JasperReports won't work on Amazon EC2 linux ami

Question

I have a web application on Amazon EC2 and JasperReports doesn't work like on my Windows PC... it comes out with

java.lang.Error: Probable fatal error:No fonts found.

I installed liberation-fonts as suggested by many on google, then I'm trying to set up this option for tomcat:

-Djava.awt.headless=true

I added it to JAVA_OPTS (as CATALINA_OPTS was missing) in etc/tomcat6/tomcat6.conf, with no effect. Do you have any clues on this?

I confirm that /etc/tomcat6/tomcat6.conf is the right place to set such things. But it's insufficient to fix the problem that you are hitting. — mdahlman, Nov 29 '11 at 00:56
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3811908/jvm-fonts-and-jasperreports — gabe, Feb 12 '13 at 20:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '11 at 07:32

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I ran into this problem with Fedora on EC2 once. In that case we solved it with yum install deja*. Give that a try.

It seems that the default DejaVu fonts were referenced somewhere, so the above was a simple solution.

answered Nov 27 '11 at 07:32

mdahlman

I ended up installing all font packeges I found on yum and it worked. Thanks – gotch4 Nov 29 '11 at 09:03

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