If following error occurs in your jasper report run Error: Error initializing graphic environment net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Error initializing graphic environment at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRGraphEnvInitializer.initi alizeGraphEnv(JRGraphEnvInitializer.java:62) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.<init>(JRBaseF iller.java:362) ...... ..... java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.X11FontManager.getDefaultPlatformFont(X11FontManager.java:779) at sun.font.SunFontManager$2.run(SunFontManager.java:428) then it looks like java font is not installed on your machine. Solutions to this problem =============================== Set JAVA_OPTS environment variable as -Djava.awt.headless=true Install dejavu-sans-fonts: yum install dejavu-sans-fonts Installation of java-1.6.0-openjdk resulted in the following dependency's: fontconfig libXfont libfontenc ttmkfdir xorg-x11-font-utils xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 After the installation of those packages and a restart of jenkis, everything worked as designed Java7 has these dependencies.