Jmeter 2.10 and 2.11 don't let me start a HTTP Script Recorder

Question

I'm having trouble starting a proxy server for jmeter 2.10 and 2.11. I found a couple links here on SO and apache.org but my error message is slightly different that what's written on these links. Per the wiki from apache.org, I don't think I have trouble finding keytool because it returns the path when I do a

which keytool
/usr/bin/keytool

and I don't have trouble creating a file in the jmeter-210 and jmeter-211/bin dirs. This is the error message I get in my jmeter.log file:

ERROR - jmeter.protocol.http.proxy.ProxyControl: Could not initialise key store java.io.IOException: Command :'"keytool" "-genkeypair" "-alias" ":root_ca:" "-dname" "CN=_ DO NOT INSTALL unless this is your certificate (JMeter root CA), OU=Username: COMPANY\user.name, C=US" "-keyalg" "RSA" "-keystore" "proxyserver.jks" "-storepass" "randomstr1" "-keypass" "randomstr1" "-validity" "7" "-ext" "bc:c"' failed, code: 1
keytool error: java.io.IOException: Invalid escaped character in AVA: 's'

I don't know what this "invalid escaped char in AVA" is. My company and username don't have the string "AVA" and I didn't find it in any of the property files in jmeter-21x/bin.

Not sure if this is affecting it but I'm running jmeter from Darwin on a MBP, OSX 10.7.5. JMeter 2.9 doesn't give me any proxy issues, although, I ran into other issues with it, which is why I tried using these 2 newer versions, which are giving me problems with the proxy server. I'll try going down to 2.8 to see what happens but I'd rather not if I can help it. That and I'm super curious what the issue is with 2.1x and my laptop. Thanks in advance for your help.

EDIT: The COMPANY/user.name part of the error message was changed this way to sanitize the error message, although, I will try at home on my linux box to see if the funny username representation is the cause.

Answer 1

As per sebb response on User Mailing List:

"I suspect it might be in the string "COMPANY\user.name" which is derived from the Java system property "user.name". You could try redefining it on the command line (or in system.properties) to something simpler, for example:

-Duser.name=foobar

A bug has been opened to fix this issue with "\" character:

• https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56178