iReport not launching on OS X Yosemite

Question

I have iReport Designer versions 3.7.2, 4.5, 4.7.1, & 5.6.0 installed on my mac. Since upgrading to Yosemite yesterday, I cannot launch any of them.

In the console I get:

"10/18/14 11:30:32.754 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000013.ireport[37460]) Service exited with abnormal code: 2"

Not sure how to get around this, I'm sure it is something fairly simple.

Answer 1

The solution for me was to change the content of the file ireport.conf located in the directory /Applications/Jaspersoft iReport Designer.app/Contents/Resources/ireport/etc under the line with this text

# default location of JDK/JRE, can be overridden by using --jdkhome switch

i uncommented the next line and changed it for this jdkhome="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_55.jdk/Contents/Home" and now is working.

Answer 2

It looks like the fix is to install "Java for OS X 2014-001" from Apple. I did this and iReport now launches for me.

Download here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572