Summary

Symptoms

An internal LaunchAnywhere application error has occured and this application cannot proceed. (LAX) Stack Trace:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed uxxxx encoding.
  at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Unknown Source)
  at java.util.Properties.load(Unknown Source)
  at com.zerog.common.java.util.PropertiesUtil.loadProperties(DashoA8113)
  at com.zerog.lax.LAX.(DashoA8113)
  at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA8113)

Cause

InstallAnywhere is picking up the TITLEBAR and PS1 variables in the shell environment. Certain values may cause problems in the installer. For instance, one reported problem occurs when the following environment variables were set:

TITLEBAR="\[\033]\@\h: w\007]\"
PS1="${TITLEBAR}[\w]\n\u@\h$ "

Resolution

Run ?unset? on both environment variables prior to installing. Keep in mind that if PS1 is unset, then the shell prompt will be invisible.