Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : /path/to/elastic-apm-agent-1.17.0.jar

Elastic Observability APM
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I tried giving the same commandas per doc, but getting same error now also . Please help .

Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : /Users/bishanjitkumar/Downloads/elastic-apm-agent-1.17.0.jar
Error occurred during initialization of VM
agent library failed to init: instrument

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Hi and thanks for your question.

Could you send me the output of this command?

ls -ahl /Users/bishanjitkumar/Downloads/elastic-apm-agent-1.17.0.jar
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-rw-r--r--@ 1 bishanjitkumar staff 7.6M Aug 10 20:29 /Users/bishanjitkumar/Downloads/elastic-apm-agent-1.17.0.jar

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Hm, that looks fine.

Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing usually means that the JVM can't locate the jar. Maybe a permission problem or a typo somewhere?

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Hi felixbarny,

Thanks for your response . I have tried giving the permission to all by using chmod 777 to the jar file and also i have tried accessing the jar file throught terminal and there is no issue with the path mentioned in the JVM command.

Please note i am getting this error while I am trying the set VM argument to my springboot application on STS.

Thanks & Regards,
Bishanjit Kumar

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May STS execute your application in some kind of container that doesn't have access to your downloads folder? What's the output when you do System.out.println(new File("/Users/bishanjitkumar/Downloads/elastic-apm-agent-1.17.0.jar").canRead()); in your application?

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false is the output for that execution.

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We’re getting closer. Does it exists()?

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exists() method returns true.

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Then it seems to be a permission problem indeed. Try placing the agent into a different folder. Maybe your project directory.

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Hi Felixbany,

Thanks a lot after placing the agent jar file into my project directory the issue is resolved now . Thanks a lot again for your swift support. :innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :innocent:

Regards,
Bishanjit Kumar

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