Debugging / logging broken on Windows?

[Ede123]

I just installed JabRef 3.2 on Windows 7 (java version "1.8.0_73", 32 bit) and checked the error console to see if it showed why an external fetcher was failing (see #818). However there was nothing logged in error console at all.

Therefore I went ahead and tried a development snapshot (JabRef_windows_3_3dev--snapshot--2016-02-12--master--c917a4a.exe) since I noticed #484 added a --debug command line switch.

However the error console is still empty (I tried running JabRef.exe --debug as well as java -jar JabRef-3.3dev-[...].jar --debug)
The only change is that the latter produces a whole lot of output on the commandline which seems to be broken though:

C:\Program Files (x86)\JabRef>java -jar JabRef-3.3dev--snapshot--2016-02-12--mas
ter--c917a4a.jar --debug
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [d]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [d] starting at position 16
 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [thread]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [thread] starting at positi
on 25 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [level]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [level] starting at positio
n 35 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [logger]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [logger] starting at positi
on 47 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [msg]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [msg] starting at position
54 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [n]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [n] starting at position 56
 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found. Using default configurati
on: logging only errors to the console.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [d]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [d] starting at position 16
 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [thread]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [thread] starting at positi
on 25 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [level]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [level] starting at positio
n 35 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [logger]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [logger] starting at positi
on 47 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [msg]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [msg] starting at position
54 in conversion pattern.
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized format specifier [n]
ERROR StatusLogger Unrecognized conversion specifier [n] starting at position 56
 in conversion pattern.
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[Ede123]

Might be a duplicate of #743 (at least the latter part). In that case feel free to close.

It doesn't explain why the error console stays empty though (given a failing full text fetcher is supposed to log something to error console to start with).

[koppor]

Yeah, it is a duplicate.