Summary

This article discusses an issue where Corrupt JPEG data error messages are displayed when launching an installer with Java 6 on Linux.

Symptoms

This article discusses an issue where Corrupt JPEG data error messages are displayed when launching an installer with Java 6 on Linux. This results in a pixelated and distorted background image being displayed on the installer Panel.

Here are the error messages:

Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment 
Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code

Here is the context for those error messages:

Unpacking the JRE...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment 
Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code

Cause

This issue is a Java issue, not an InstallAnywhere issue. This issue is due to a Bug in Java 6.

Workaround

To resolve this issue, use Java 7 for InstallAnywhere 2012, InstallAnywhere 2013, and later InstallAnywhere versions or Java 8 for InstallAnywhere 2014 and later InstallAnywhere versions to run the installer.

Additional Information

To view the documentation of the Bug in Java, click here.