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Java Update 13 breaks Cisco SDM 2.5

Apr 22nd, 2009 by Howard

Another post in a series designed to help Future-Howard work out why things have broken.

If you install Java 6 Update 13 and then try and log into Cisco SDM 2.5 it will fail. The SDM console will not load.

I found I had to go back to Java 6 Update 6 (available at the Java archive page, or direct download.).

With that the Cisco SDM started working again. I’ve not found anything about this on the Cisco site.

Posted in Development, Infrastructure, Networking

13 Responses to “Java Update 13 breaks Cisco SDM 2.5”

  1. James Schorr says:
    May 1st 2009 at 22:54

    Thanks for this! It was driving me crazy!

  2. sdmuser says:
    May 2nd 2009 at 02:32

    yep, broke for me too.

  3. Victor says:
    May 2nd 2009 at 03:43

    Thanks for the information. I have run into this before but it seems that the Java versions keep going farther back. I knew not to update mine but it is running Java 6 Update 7 and that wasn’t working either.

  4. fibrewire says:
    May 10th 2009 at 21:48

    I had the same problem, but this site helped me fix it! Then i found Java 7 Beta and now everything works again in Vista without any pesky downgrading. Thanks again!

  5. Mixu says:
    May 25th 2009 at 11:37

    Thanks,
    this helped lot! I had exactly this problem!

  6. Million thanks man says:
    May 28th 2009 at 14:05

    This was making crazy i really appreciate your effort

    Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  7. Vadim says:
    June 28th 2009 at 16:11

    Version 6 Update 14 (build 1.6.0_14-b08) fixes the problem.

  8. Vadim says:
    June 28th 2009 at 19:42

    But it seems that SDM work unstable and crashes on certain items.

  9. Mike Shafer says:
    July 28th 2009 at 23:22

    Hi,
    After removing a bit more of the slight hair I have left I did some experimenting and comparing. A WinXP Pro and a W2k3 machine both had Java 6u14 (build 1.6.0_11) on them and SDM would load and worked fine with the exception that the Security Audit wouldn’t run.

    Rolled both machines back to Java 6u11 and all’s fine.

    To note I’m using Firefox 3.51 for the browser.

    I’m going to give the Version 6 Update 14 (build 1.6.0_14-b08) mentioned above a whirl and see what shakes!

    Cheers!

  10. capcorne says:
    August 7th 2009 at 15:36

    Hi,
    Thanks for the information, I discovered the error on the Java console (IndexOutOfRange), and then searched of bugs in the SDM, it was a real headache.

  11. Scott says:
    February 16th 2010 at 17:15

    This is STILL a problem, and boy am I glad I found this page. I actually updated Java once more thinking maybe I was on an old version. I never would have though I was on too new a version.

    THANKS!!!

  12. Jon Middleton says:
    February 20th 2010 at 13:39

    Thanks for putting this post up, I encountered the same problem this morning.

  13. Stephen Jones says:
    March 2nd 2010 at 07:51

    Yea, I had the same problem with java 6 update 18. I uninstalled that and let the computer restart with whatever version it chose. There are about 5 versions currently installed on my Win XP machine. The PC came up running Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06) and now my SDM Security Audit is working. Thanks for the help.

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