Topic: JBidwatcher Help / no more thumbnails ?

Hi,

10 days ago, I updated Java from Ver. 8 update 51 (build 1.8.0_51-b16) to Ver. 8 update 77 (build 1.8.0_77-b03).
I then had random issues with the thumbnails that were playing hide and seek.
Yesterday I noticed that none of the new entries had any thumbnails.
I don’t know if this java related or not.

Any clue about what to look for ?

Thanks in advance and best regards

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Installing on windows 10

I installed 2.99 to windows 7 successfully but when installed to windows 10
refreshing logged on correctly but only obtained items circa 2014 obviously out of date and no current items.
uninstalled old version 2.56 and 2.9 from the control panel reinstalled 2.99 with the same result
-ancient items only.
Searched the computer and found a hidden folder .jbidwatcher in:
c:\users\your user name\.jbidwatcher -dated 2014

Solution
uninstalled 2.99 again then deleted the above folder in that location.
rebooted reinstalled from scratch entered ebay user name password etc. refreshed
and got the uptodate info correctly.

obviously uninstall does not clear out this old data which interfers with the latest version
Dont no why some words have a line through them

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / 2.5.6 Bug - Fails to pull shipping costs

Yup. I’m using v. 299.pre5. It is pulling in shipping costs from Canada, but not from China or the USA.

Is there another setting for shipping costs other than the “shipping column”?

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Shipping Column and search

I don’t have an answer, but I too am interested in a Shipping Cost column. However, I haven’t stumbled across instruction on how to activate a shipping column.

Any help out there?

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Error message just started appearing

No, I’m not being prompted for anything. Logging in and out from browser works fine.

Undoubtedly, eBay has changed something again.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Error message just started appearing

Are you being prompted to update your personal information? Try logging out and back in from your browser.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Error message just started appearing

“The login did not cause any errors and delivered cookies, but was not clearly recognized as successful.”

This message just started appearing from JBW. Version 2.99pre5-2-g7251940.

Login icon on JBW screen is yellow, not green as usual.

Ideas?

Topic: Announcements / Can't download?

Thank you, Morgan!!!!!!!!! Got it downloaded AND installed.

Topic: Announcements / Download server failure

Thank you for resolving this. I was able to successfully download the files.
Cheers!

Topic: Announcements / Can't download?

Thank you, success!

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / 500 error on update file

Nothing to be sorry about… not nearly as much of a problem as having an option to disable time sync that doesn’t!

Thanks again,
—Bushytails

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / 10.8+ Is there a real reason?

Greetings,
I wrote a post on the reasons why which might help some.

I don’t like leaving older systems behind either, but the combination of upcoming security issues and the Apple/Oracle transition of who owns Mac Java have really made it hard to do anything but a clean break.

In this case, I’m fairly sure that the upgrade to 10.8 as a minimum requirement is pretty well-founded.

— Morgan

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / 500 error on update file

Greetings,
My database went absolutely nuts; somehow it started repeating what were supposed to be unique, auto-incremented primary key ids, which prevented a whole bunch of things from working. :(

It’s fixed now… Sorry about that.

— Morgan

Topic: Announcements / Can't download?

Greetings,
Sorry, my back-end database went wonky, started repeating a series of supposedly unique ids, which prevented the download. :(

I’ve fixed it; it should be working again.

— Morgan

Topic: Announcements / Download server failure

No files can be downloaded. Here is the error message:

This site can’t be reached

The webpage at https://www.jbidwatcher.com/download/JBidwatcher-2.99pre5-Installer.exe might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE

Topic: Announcements / Can't download?

I get the same thing — unable to download anything.

I even tried to go to the download page — not even an index, so there’s obviously some sort of problem. Hope it gets fixed soon.

Topic: Announcements / Can't download?

Looks as if your server is down… Unable to download anything.

This site can’t be reached

The webpage at http://www.jbidwatcher.com/download/JBidwatcher-2.99pre5-Installer.exe might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / External Remote Database

I’m having issues with using a remote SQL database aswell. It was working fine, but suddenly stopped

The version is JBidwatcher 2.99pre5-2-g7251940

Even when I specify the database details in the cfg file it says along the lines of cannot connect to database ’ ’

Any help would be appreciated

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / 500 error on update file

Sun Apr 10 11:05:43 PDT 2016: UpdaterEntry: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://www.jbidwatcher.com/jbidwatcher2.xml

—Bushytails

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / jbidwatcher do not start

Hello,

and sorry for my bad english!

I try to install jbidwatcher. I do this:

mkdir /opt/jbidwatcher
cd /opt/jbidwatcher

wget http://www.jbidwatcher.com/download/JBidwatcher-2.5.3pre3.jar

Then i try to start with this:

java -jar /opt/jbidwatcher/JBidwatcher-VERSIONSNUMMER.jar

But the JB do not strat. I get this Error Message:

No protocol specified
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.run(Boot.java:342)
at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.main(Boot.java:168)
Caused by: java.lang.InternalError: Can’t connect to X11 window server using ‘:0’ as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.access$200(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:65)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment$1.run(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:110)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:74)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:195)
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.createGE(GraphicsEnvironment.java:102)
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:81)
at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.(XToolkit.java:120)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:195)
at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:869)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:861)
at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getSystemMnemonicKeyMask(SwingUtilities2.java:1928)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(BasicLookAndFeel.java:752)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(MetalLookAndFeel.java:434)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.getDefaults(BasicLookAndFeel.java:148)
at javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel.getDefaults(MetalLookAndFeel.java:1589)
at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:536)
at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:576)
at javax.swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1345)
at javax.swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1455)
at javax.swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1422)
at javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels(UIManager.java:416)
at com.jbidwatcher.app.JBidWatch.main(JBidWatch.java:386)
… 6 more

What can i do?

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / force JBidwatcher to re-import auctions.xml

OK. I was able to fix the problem by myself. I had to go out and find an ancient copy of JBidwatcher 2.1.3. In addition to renaming jbdb, I also renamed JBidWatch.cfg so the program was forced to recreate both from scratch. After the reconstruction, you can go back to using a more recent version of JBidwatcher. I still think a menu option to recreate the database would be a LOT more user-friendly.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / force JBidwatcher to re-import auctions.xml

Hi

My Win7x64 machine BSOD’ed this morning and my JBidwatcher has been unhappy ever since. It seems the program will hang while loading auctions. I checked in the process manager. There is no disk activity or CPU activity. The program simply becomes a zombie. I tried renaming the jbdb to jbdb.bak and restarting, but it failed to re-import the auctions.xml file. It’s just an empty table. I checked the auctions.xml file in a text editor. It looks fine. I even tried using one of the many many many (really, why does JBidwatcher keep so many?) backup auctions.xml files and none of those work either. I tried re-installing Java 8. I even tried downgrading to Java 7. I also tried older and newer versions of JBidwatcher. Same result. Hangs if trying to open the current database. Completely ignores the auctions.xml file if I try to force it to rebuild the database. Is there a way to really really really FORCE JBidwatcher to rebuild the Derby database using the auctions.xml file other than renaming the database folder (which doesn’t seem to be working)? An import auctions menu item would be super useful. I’m at wit’s end, having spent a half day on this already. I’m attaching my debugging output:

Thu Apr 07 13:45:04 EDT 2016: Couldn’t set up tray access: C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\platform\tray.dll: Can’t load IA 32-bit .dll on a AMD 64-bit platform
Thu Apr 07 13:45:04 EDT 2016: JBidwatcher 2.5.6-11-gac197d6
Thu Apr 07 13:45:04 EDT 2016: Oracle Corporation Java, version 1.8.0_77 on Windows 7
Thu Apr 07 13:45:04 EDT 2016: Logging to C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\errors.537.log
Thu Apr 07 13:45:05 EDT 2016: Loaded the appropriate driver.
Thu Apr 07 13:45:05 EDT 2016: Upgrading error
Failed to create database ‘jbdb’, see the next exception for details.
java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database ‘jbdb’, see the next exception for details.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.seeNextException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.createDatabase(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection30.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection40.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.jdbc.Driver40.getNewEmbedConnection(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.jdbc.InternalDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.jdbc.AutoloadedDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.Database.setup(Database.java:101)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.Database.(Database.java:62)
at com.jbidwatcher.Upgrader.upgrade(Upgrader.java:26)
at com.jbidwatcher.app.JBidWatch.main(JBidWatch.java:429)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.run(Boot.java:342)
at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.main(Boot.java:168)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database ‘jbdb’, see the next exception for details.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransportAcrossDRDA(Unknown Source)
… 22 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Directory C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\jbdb already exists.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransportAcrossDRDA(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.generateCsSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.wrapInSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.handleException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.handleException(Unknown Source)
… 19 more
Caused by: ERROR XBM0J: Directory C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\jbdb already exists.
at org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException.newException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.StorageFactoryService$9.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.StorageFactoryService.createServiceRoot(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.BaseMonitor.bootService(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.BaseMonitor.createPersistentService(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.iapi.services.monitor.Monitor.createPersistentService(Unknown Source)
… 19 more
Thu Apr 07 13:45:06 EDT 2016: Scripting is not enabled.
Thu Apr 07 13:45:08 EDT 2016: Loaded the appropriate driver.
Thu Apr 07 13:45:08 EDT 2016: JBidwatcher: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can’t access the auctions database table
Can’t access the auctions database table
java.lang.RuntimeException: Can’t access the auctions database table
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.ActiveRecord.openDB(ActiveRecord.java:32)
at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionInfo.getRealDatabase(AuctionInfo.java:397)
at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionInfo.getDatabase(AuctionInfo.java:394)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.ActiveRecord.count(ActiveRecord.java:63)
at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionInfo.count(AuctionInfo.java:428)
at com.jbidwatcher.ui.AuctionsManager.loadAuctionsFromDatabase(AuctionsManager.java:217)
at com.jbidwatcher.app.JBidWatch.(JBidWatch.java:654)
at com.jbidwatcher.app.JBidWatch.main(JBidWatch.java:477)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.run(Boot.java:342)
at com.simontuffs.onejar.Boot.main(Boot.java:168)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database ‘jbdb’, see the next exception for details.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.seeNextException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.createDatabase(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection30.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection40.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.jdbc.Driver40.getNewEmbedConnection(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.jdbc.InternalDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.jdbc.AutoloadedDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.Database.setup(Database.java:101)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.Database.(Database.java:62)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.Table.(Table.java:59)
at com.jbidwatcher.util.db.ActiveRecord.openDB(ActiveRecord.java:29)
… 13 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database ‘jbdb’, see the next exception for details.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransportAcrossDRDA(Unknown Source)
… 29 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Directory C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\jbdb already exists.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransportAcrossDRDA(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.generateCsSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.wrapInSQLException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.handleException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.handleException(Unknown Source)
… 26 more
Caused by: ERROR XBM0J: Directory C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\C:\Users\user\.jbidwatcher\jbdb already exists.
at org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException.newException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.StorageFactoryService$9.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.StorageFactoryService.createServiceRoot(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.BaseMonitor.bootService(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.impl.services.monitor.BaseMonitor.createPersistentService(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.derby.iapi.services.monitor.Monitor.createPersistentService(Unknown Source)
… 26 more

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Emergeny fix needed for random ebay times?

I just added viv.ebay.com as 127.0.0.1 in my hosts, so now time sync fails, instead of getting a bogus time. Hopefully no more snipes lost due to this. I rather wanted the one that ended this morning!

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Emergeny fix needed for random ebay times?

Every snipe I’ve done the last two days has failed. It now seems I’m getting the bogus server times every time now.

errors.110.log:Tue Apr 05 14:17:48 PDT 2016: Time delta with ebay.com is -29177
errors.110.log:Tue Apr 05 16:51:50 PDT 2016: Time delta with ebay.com is -29887
errors.110.log:Tue Apr 05 16:56:58 PDT 2016: Time delta with ebay.com is -29807
errors.111.log:Wed Apr 06 10:01:21 PDT 2016: Time delta with ebay.com is -31016

I just set my snipe time to 45 seconds before the end of the auction to compensate, but if I get a non-bogus time, I’ll be bidding too early.

The option to disable time sync needs to work…

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Emergeny fix needed for random ebay times?

I sniped an auction today, 05/04/16 without any problems, precisely on time.

Note – 2.99pre5, ebay.co.uk, login “green dot”