Can anyone please tell me why I get the following error when I try to run my Java programs? The programs get compiled successfully but are not able to be run. I have already set the path of Java.
C:\JavaServ>javac hello1.java
C:\JavaServ>java hello1
Error: could not open C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg
Don't think if this is a correct way...(perhaps proper installation of Java is a permanent solution)....but this is a trick..:)
Delete the “java.exe” file from “c:\windows” and “c:\windows\system32″. That should fix it.
In case you get here and scroll this far down, the newer Oracle versions of Java x86 and probably also x64 are horribly broken. You may find that after removing all versions of Java, and even manually deleting all the versions you find in c:/program files/ and c:/program files (x86)/ that you still can't properly run a fresh install of Java.
I'm here to tell you why, and how to fix it.
Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\ and DELETE the Oracle directory. It has a version of Java underneath it inside a junction (symlink) that is sequestered away from all your other installs. Bastards.
Now, also go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables and edit the PATH under System Variables. Find the place where the Oracle folder is referenced, and delete it. Close all your windows down, reboot to be extra sure if you want.
Install the JRE or JDK. Open a command prompt and type 'java' and if it comes up, you're golden. If not, go back to the PATH variable and add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_221\bin" or whatever looks right for your machine.
I hate Oracle.
this should be an internal file of JRE and in general you shouldn't deal with it when you're running/compiling java.
Here you can find an explanation of what exactly this file is intended for.
Bottom line, your Java installation is somehow corrupted, so as a first resort to resolve this issue, I suggest you to re-install jre.
You should ensure that you're installing the right jre for your architecture.
Hope, this helps
You can not Uninstall/Reinstall JRE if you are having this error.
That's why because previous installation has copied 3 files namely Java.exe, Javaw.exe, javaws.exe in the c:/windows/system32 folder.
Simply go there and remove these files and download a fresh version of jre from oracle and install it. I will prefer JDK 1.6 update 45. Which is very stable.
update registry path to installation location
This happened for me when I moved out my default installation from an overcrowded primary partition to another location. Fir
Java mysteriously broke on my work PC after a security patch was pushed out to us, giving this error whenever you tried to run a Java program. Somehow the 'lib' subdirectory of the Java 7 install had vanished! It might have been related to having multiple Java versions installed simultaneously.
If you're getting this error there are basically two things that could be wrong:
1) Your Java installation is broken. If the file/directory it's complaining about doesn't exist, uninstall and reinstall the JRE and then it should be there. This fixed it for me.
2) If the files are there, your PATH is somehow incorrect or pointing at an old/broken Java install. In this case you either need to fix your PATH to point to the correct java.exe/javaw.exe, or use a fully qualified path. So instead of:
java <whatever>
Use
c:\<full path to correct JRE>\bin\java.exe <whatever>
3) If your PATH is correct and files are there and it's still failing, the path could be getting truncated because it is too long. see: Running Java gives "Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'" .
i also had the same issue due to one more instance of java,javaw and javaws in C:\Windows\System32 which was pointing to jre6 and my default location of jre was pointing to this(C:\Windows\System32) location. Even having jdk 1.8 as my JAVA_HOME location i were getting this problem.
so either remove or rename java,javaw and javaws it will work.
If you have installer deployed Java on Windows and decided to bring some order to your JDKs with folders moving...
All answers with java.exe in Windows\System32 are right but in more tough situation - there are no files, but error messages still happen, then remember about Windows Registry entries (look regedit.exe).
They store information about JRE folder in this registry key:
win32:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment
win64:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment
The program can be compiled but while running it leads to such an error:
Could not open C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg
It indicates that the jvm.cfg file is missing in Program files. Reasons may be file corruption or file may be deleted. Install JRE again in "Program Files" folder.
Another case which happened with me is that I installed 32 bit jdk & jre in my 64 bit system in Program Files(x86) and my Program Files folder was empty. That was the reason for that error. So I installed 64 bit JRE in Program Files folder and it started to work. Note that it is not related to jdk version. Associated with only JRE problem.
I was getting the same error with my docear program on windows 7.
What I found is that I had two instances of java 1.6 installed on my computer. One instance has a jvm.cfg and the other does not.
Modifying my path to search the correct instance of java (in bold) first fixed the problem.
Here is my corrected path:
C:\Users\kranjit>path
PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32
\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Enterprise Vault\EVClient\;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;
In our system, for "java(jre)" for runtime purpose is availed, So If you install any different version of java, propbably the version before the one which is already installed.
E.g.; my windows 8.1 I have runtime java version of 8, then when I install Ver7 it is bu default taking V8, yet I uninstall 8, In this kind of Scenarios, Removing java.exe from c:\windows\system32 makes my java runtime work
For anyone still having an issue I made mine work by doing this probably not the best fix but it worked for me..
I uninstalled all Java's that i current had installed, reinstalled the latest one and changed the install directory to C:/Windows/jre (Basically where it kept saying there was no config file)
If you have installed more than one jdk version , uninstall the others and keep only the one in use. this worked for me.
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/uninstall_java.xml
I want to add some pointers here.
Whenever you face the error saying Could not open jvm.cfg, it means that there was some mess happened with java installation path. Below approaches might help.
If java is added in environment path, then open command prompt and type where java. If you get list of directories where java path specified. Other than the directory where you need the java file, delete the java files in all other directories.
If you are reading 2nd pointer, then 1st pointer might have not helped. Type regedit in run dialog and under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, go to softwares/javasoft and rename the paths of the java installed directory.
Let me know if above approaches solve the problem.
The simple Solution is just uninstall the javaSE and reinstall it to the default location.
Then copy the installed location probably like C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131\bin.
After then go to desktop then while selecting right click on My Pc or This pc shortcut the under that select properties >> Advanced system settings >> under Advance tab >> last option Environment Variables..>>path >> edit >> past >> ;(not required if win10)/(required if windows 7)
I had this issue when installing 201, somehow it didn't uninstall my 191 properly. I had to go to the Program Files/Java folder, rename the old 201 directory, then install a fresh copy of 201. When doing so, it prompted me to uninstall 191, which I did. Now it's working fine.
I was facing the same issue after upgrading my java version.I had more than one jdk installation. I have manually uninstalled the old jdk version . Then it worked for me.
Resolved
I had similar issue, I tried different things but nothing worked. Then when I checked the installed programs. I could see two versions of java installed.
What I did is, just uninstall all java versions and freshly installed the required version. But this didn't seem to work when I checked in terminal. Then I had to reopen the terminal and run the command, then only it worked.
Note : Dont forget to reopen the terminal if you are testing via terminal.
I had an identical error trying to start IntellJ with a custom JBR.
C:\Users\user>"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2021.3.3\bin\idea.bat"
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2021.3.3\jbr-arm64\lib\jvm.cfg'
This issue may occur if there were problems extracting Java or OpenJDK from a zip or tarball (e.g. a slow extraction was terminated prematurely) or if the zip or tarball was corrupted or incomplete.
If caused by a corrupted zip or tarball, try redownloading the archive.
If caused by a bad extraction, repeating the extraction will fix this.
Copying and pasting i386\jvm.cfg from a different PC will resolve the issue.
I had the same issue.I just uninstalled Java and reinstalled again it worked fine after that . The problem is related to JRE so you can just reinstall JRE.
I had same problem - when I tried to run a Java program from command line the error message appeared: "Error: could not open jvm.cfg".
My Path environment variable included following path:
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
In the folder there were 3 exe files:
java.exe
javaw.exe
javaws.exe
When I removed the the entry
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
from the Path environment variable and restarted cmd, I could run the program as usual (java MyProg).
Obviously I have corrupted the path pointing to correct java jre installation
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151
somehow previously when I played with my settings.
It means that this jvm.cfg file is not found. Maybe it was deleted. Reinstall the program. If you have this problem with a game for example, reinstall Java in the games folder, or copy Java files .de c:/Program Files/JAVA and paste to the JAVA folder in the game folder
Related
I am trying to use Eclipse on a friends computer but we keep getting this when we run Eclipse
We have the environmental variable set as well.
Edit
it was working before he installed the black berry plug in.
The variable JAVA_HOME is not required by Eclipse. If your Java installation does not put the Java executables in the PATH, you should add those manually.
A faster way to have your Eclipse up and running consists in modifying the eclipse.ini and using the -vm option.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini#-vm_value:_Windows_Example
I had the same problem. For me, I needed the JDK. So I had to install the JDK. It should match the build platform that is, 64bit vs. 32bit windows. After that, I removed, the -vm line from the eclipse.ini file (the suggested fix). It was giving me the "Can't create virtual machine" error. The current release of JDK is version, 7 whereas the Android Developers Toolkit version of eclipse is currently based on JDK 6. But it seems to work. Eclipse came up and is functional. Haven't actually written a program yet.
Go to eclipse folder (where eclipse is installed) and open eclipse.ini file in your editor and add the following code after openFile tag.
-vm C:\Program Files\JDK6\bin\javaw.exe
That's all.
I had a similar problem, since our Java and JDK is consistently updated by our service desk, including uninstalling old JDKs. They take care of the PATH for us, but then the JRE that Eclipse was used to "seeing" was gone. So, the thing that has worked best for me is to modify the shortcut's "target" from:
"C:\Program Files\Eclipse\Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers\eclipse.exe"
to
"C:\Program Files\Eclipse\Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers\eclipse.exe" -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\<jdkver>\jre\bin\javaw.exe"
That will point Eclipse toward to the JRE in the JDK you want it to use, and then you can update that shortcut when your JDK updates.
This is on Windows 64bit, obviously.
It can also happen on mismatch of JAVA and Eclipse bit version.
for eg:
If in your System java is 32 bit and you are trying to install Eclipse of 64 bit then the same situation might occur.
Because Eclipse will look Java in Program Files while at the same time Java may be present in Program Files (x86).
So in this case eclipse will not get java and throw the same error.
While installing eclipse, Jre missing :
I solved my error as follows:-
This error may comes if you have 2 program files folder in your system.
"Program files" &
"Program files x86".
Please install JDK&JRE in the "Program files" folder.
Hope your jre missing error get solved.
this works for me:
open eclipse.ini file in your editor and add the line: -vm C:\Program Files\JDK11\bin\javaw.exe
update system PATH with correct JDK path.
My Eclipse Kepler had been running just fine until I messed up some settings and then had to delete the installation directory and re-extract the zip file. I also deleted the workspaces.
But after I had extracted the zip file, the Eclipse just won't start.
I tried extracting to another drive (C:) this time, still won't start.
Also tried the -clean option, but to no avail.
What went wrong?
There are few things I could think of that are trivial, but might solve your problem. Maybe you changed JAVA_HOME in Path, or deleted it. Check for Environment Variables for JAVA_HOME.
Another thing is that you have Java 6 and you need Java 7. Or in your case, you need Java 7 x64. Maybe you have installed Java 7 x64, but JAVA_HOME points to another version of Java. Check for that too.
Ultimate solution is to write in eclipse.ini argument for desired virtual machine path, like:
-vm
/path/to/desired/java/vm
You can start eclipse with debug / console flag and see exactly what is happening
Run eclipsec.exe this will launch Eclipse with a debug console in the background.
I've been trying to install this ARToolkit from Qualcomm:
https://ar.qualcomm.at/qdevnet/
(Windows ".exe" version) on a Windows 7 64bits platform, and I keep getting the error:
Windows error 2 occured while loading the Java VM
The program trying to install this program is InstallAnywhere, but I can't seem to find any documentation about this error. The dialogue box name when the crash happens is
LaunchAnywhere
I was just wondering if anyone had seen this kind of error before and if so, how to solve it. The very few answers I can find online relate to Win98/ME issues thus making them irrelevant.
I'm currently using JDK 1.7.0_04 and jre 1.7 if this is somehow relevant.
Launch the installer with the following command line parameters:
LAX_VM
For example:
InstallXYZ.exe LAX_VM "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe"
In cmd
C:\Users\Downloads>install.exe LAX_VM "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_60\bin\java.exe"
For me it works a deleting "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath" in my system enviroment PATH variable
Edit:
If you don't have that variable or it does not work you can directly delete or rename the directory "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath"
'Windows error 2' has dozens of meanings (52 that I could find).
The most common one is ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, which can be found in winerror.h. Without more context, that's the best I can guess. Did you check the event logs to see if there's more information there?
We could not uninstall a program, stuck with the "Windows error 2 cannot load Java VM". Added the Java path to the PATH variable, uninstalled and re-installed Java 8, the problem would not go away.
Then I found this solution online and it worked for us on the first shot:
- Uninstall Java 8
- Install Java 6
Whatever the reason, with Java 6, the error went away, we uninstalled the program, and re-installed Java 8.
If you get the error after installation:
Find the .lax file with the matching exe name and update current vm path from:
lax.nl.current.vm=C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe
to
lax.nl.current.vm=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_144\bin\java.exe
Try adding C:\path\to\java\jre\bin to your system environment variable PATH and run again. That worked for me!
I think it should be .....\javaw.exe". It worked for me. Thanks.
I had same mistake, it was produced because i had disabled the creation of "_jvm" in the InstallAnywhere (project - JVM settings - Installer Settings - Bundled/Downloaded Virtual Machine), then into file "Uninstall $PRODUCT_NAME$.lax" into uninstall folder, the variable "lax.nl.current.vm" is empty.
If you don't need jvm is disabled check "Install Bundled / Downloaded Virtual Machine" option in the checkbox (project - JVM settings - Installer Settings - Bundled/Downloaded Virtual Machine).
If you need jvm is disabled because you create it manually, then you can do the following:
create an action "Modify Text File" to append variable with the value of the _jvm folder.
(Existing File)
$USER_INSTALL_DIR$\Uninstall_$PRODUCT_NAME$ \Uninstall $PRODUCT_NAME$.lax
(Append)
lax.nl.current.vm=..\_jvm\bin\java.exe
I got the same problem after upgrading java from 1.8.0_202 to 1.8.0_211
Problem:
Here are directories where new version of 1.8.0_211 of Java installed:
Directory of c:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_211\bin
Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath
So one is located in 32 bit and second is in 64 bit Program files folder. The one that is specified in the PATH is 32 bit version (c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath), even though it was 64 bit version of the Java that was installed.
Solution:
Change system environments variable PATH from c:\Program Files
(x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath to c:\Program
Files\Java\jre1.8.0_211\bin
I get this error when I try to do anything with Java in command prompt:
Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment.3'
Error: could not find Java.dll
Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment
I did screw around with deleting Java directories and registry a few days ago. I restarted computer and java was still working fine, then i restarted it again today and now I get this error. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but that doesn't seem to work. I have the latest java JRE installed and the path set in the environment variables. Anyone have any clue how to fix this?
Make sure you remove any java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your Windows\System32 folder and if you have an x64 system (Win 7 64 bits) also do the same under Windows\SysWOW64.
If you can't find them at these locations, try deleting them from C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath.
You will find a folder named "Oracle" on ProgramData folder in your windows installed drive. Remove the folder. Hope it will work.
In my case my install drive is C and my path is C:\ProgramData\Oracle
I had a similar problem. I had installed JDK7 update 1 but couldn't use it (probably because I found a JRE6 that I deleted after installing JDK7). Uninstalling JDK7 was impossible. The solution was to add the JRE registry entries by hand.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment]
"CurrentVersion"="1.7"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7]
"JavaHome"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7"
"RuntimeLib"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin\\client\\jvm.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7.0_01]
"JavaHome"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7"
"RuntimeLib"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin\\client\\jvm.dll"
You'll have to adjust the above to your own directories and version.
If this doesn't help, there's still JavaRa https://singularlabs.com/software/javara/ .
Delete these 3 files present in your local at path C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
java.exe
javaw.exe
javaws.exe
This solved the issue for me :)
Make sure you remove any java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your system.
if you have an x32 system (Win XP 32 bits) Windows\System32 folder
if you have an x64 system (Win 7 64 bits) also do the same under Windows\SysWOW64 folder
On Windows 10 I had just installed the JDK, and got these errors when checking the version. I had to delete all executable files starting with java (i.e. java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe) from C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath. And then, once deleted, re-run the JDK installer, restart my terminal program and java -v works.
There are 3 locations to check
Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8.0_xxx\JavaHome
Java Control Panel- Java tab - View - Path
Environment Variables - Path ($env:Path)
All 3 have to align (if you have multiple entires just remove the wrong ones) - thats all
I had the same:
Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment
Clearing Windows\SysWOW64 doesn't help for Win7
In my case it installing JDK8 offline helped (from link)
I would have tagged this as a comment but cant (dont have the rep) just wanted to thank Tilman. I was trying to get PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge) to work to no avail.
At launch it would produce an error stating that it could not find JRE 1.6.0. I Have both 32 and 64 bit versions and they check out fine at the java website in their respective browsers.
Tried uninstalling/reinstalling and rebooting repeatedly as well as using JavaRa. No such luck, still no go.
I looked in the registry after reading this post and there was no ...\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\ key so I added each with their respective string values pointing to my x86 version (PDFsam is a 32bit program). This got past the first problem but an error popped up about amd64 libraries suggesting the machine wanted to run the 64bit version. So I changed the paths to the 64bit JRE and PDFsam now works.
FYI - I got here by searching for Java registry keys after I was unable to launch javaw.exe from command prompt (even after adding the requisite paths to system path), making the aforementioned changes solved this as well.
I got this kind of error whe nI had JDK 1.7 before and I installed JAVA JDK 1.8 and pointed my JAVA_HOME and PATH variables to JAVA 1.8 version. When I try to find the java version I got this error. I restarted my machine, and it works . It seems to be we have to restart the machine after modifying the environment variables.
In case a virus scanner (like McAfee) is running, try:
Disable virus scanner
Uninstall Java (via Control Panel / Programs and Features)
Reinstall Java (from Java.com)
Re-enable virus scanner
Uninstall Java (via Control Panel / Programs and Features)
Install Java JRE 7 --> OFFLINE <--
Configure JAVA_HOME and Path = %JAVA_HOME%/bin;%PATH%
I have Windows 7. I got the same problem after installing: PyCharm.
I wasn't satisfied with PyCharm, so I decided to use Eclipse instead. This is when I discovered that things went wrong with my JDK. I used to have Java.9.x. So I decided to uninstall it and get the newer version (at my time it was Java.11.x. The same problem persisted.
I followed most of the steps mentioned above in the post like:
- Removing all java*.exe files,
- removing Java related entries from the registry.
- Cleaning-up all unnecessary Java folders. However nothing helped. I still had something in the system referring to a broken Java pathname.
What really brought remedy is the following:
- Uninstalled what ever version of JDK I had at the moment.
- Re-Installed the last JDK version I had before the problem took place
- Properly uninstall that version.
- Install whatever latest version of SDK. ..
That's it .. at this point everything returned to normal ... Except that Java.11.xx did not fix the system path automatically, I had to do it manually.
I followed multiple answers from above and got my issue resolved.
Issue:
Javac was on 13 from jdk but java was using 1.8 from jre so java threw incompatible runtime error
Fix:
Under Control Panel -> Programs: I uninstalled 1.8 (named Java 8 runtime) and DID NOT touch the other one (named Java (TM) SE Development Kit 13)
Deleted java.exe, javac.exe and javawc.exe files from:
a. C:\Windows\system32
b. C:\Windows\SysWOW64
c. C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
The environment variable JDK_HOME was pointing to 13 but JAVA_HOME was pointing to 1.8 so i pointed JAVA_HOME to also use 13 which was C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1
There was a Path variable under both User variables and system variables sections.
For the one in user variables section, i added the string %JDK_HOME% - which translated automatically to the physical path.
For the one under system variables, I deleted the path C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath and added C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin
All good now! Thanks to all the people who answered, you rock!
Make sure to delete java references from system32, SysWOW64, and delete javapath from ProgramData\Oracle\Java. It solves the issue
If you have "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath" in your PATH, just make sure that the java bin path entries are present before this entry in your PATH.
I was facing the exact same issue, and I just moved the java jdk/jre bin path entries up in the list, above the oracle entry and it resolved my issue.
Eclipse is unable to open, have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem. Now I keep getting the following error message:
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:
Have gotten eclipse to open and work on projects before and won't open.
Here is a screen shot of what I keep getting:
You can explicitly tell Eclipse where to find it. Open eclipse.ini and add the following lines to the top of the file:
-vm
/absolute/path/to/jre6/bin
Update: I just nailed down the root cause on my own Windows machine. The GlassFish installer complained with exactly the same error message and after digging in GlassFish forums, the cause was clear: a corrupt JRE install on a Windows machine. My JRE came along with the JDK and the Java 6 JDK installer didn't install the JRE properly somehow. A DLL file was missing in JDK's JRE installation. After I reinstalled the standalone JRE from http://java.com, overwriting the old one, the GlassFish installer continued and also Eclipse was able to start flawlessly without those two lines in eclipse.ini.
I got this problem because i uninstalled the jdk version 13 and reinstall the jdk version 8
Even though i have updated the path variables eclipse still pick the old configuration.
You need to edit the eclipse.ini file which is in your folder where eclipse.exe is placed.
Just update this file with the latest path so eclipse can pick it up
It usually is because:
you indicated the wrong jvm path in your -vm argument: see this SO question for an concrete example.
the eclipse.ini got corrupted somehow (if it hasn't been modified, this isn't it, but if setting a jvm path doesn't work, ... I would replace the eclipse.ini by one coming from a fresh installation just to be sure)
the java which eclipse search by default is no longer accessible (because the $PATH is no longer up-to-date)
More details on the wiki page "Finding a VM, Using JNI Invocation or Executing Java"
No -vm specified
When no -vm is specified, the launcher looks for a virtual machine first in a jre directory in the root of eclipse and then on the search path.
If java is found in either location, then we look for a jvm shared library (jvm.dll on window, libjvm.so on *nix platforms) relative to that java executable.
If a jvm shared library is found we load it and use the JNI invocation api to start the vm.
If no jvm shared library is found, we exec the java launcher to start the vm in a new process.
As mentioned in "FAQ How do I run Eclipse?":
Eclipse DOES NOT consult the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
So I would check your $PATH, starting by n new shell sesion (whatever your OS is), typing 'java -version' to see if it still returns anything.
Copy javaw.exe from C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8(or)1.6(or)1.7\bin
and paste it inside Eclipse folder
where eclipse.exe is there. That's all.
Here is how I fixed mine:
find the location where your jre is installed. in my case, it was located at C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10
copy the jre folder and paste it where your eclipse files are located (where eclipse.exe is located).
when you download eclipse, you get a .zip package containing eclipse.exe and all the other files needed to run eclipse but it is missing the jre files. so all you need to do is to find where jre folder is located on your hard drive and add it to the rest of the eclipse package.
I had the same problem and the issue was that I had a 32 bit version of Eclipse running on my 64 bit machine and it wanted the 32 bit version of JRE.
I changed Program Files to Program Files (x86) in the eclipse.ini file like so:
-VM
C:Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
and that solved the problem.
You may want to just install the 64 bit Eclipse, but this will take care of the error.
Did you install Java via the java.com web browser auto install? If so, then that's your problem! You need to to the "manual" install: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
It's just a matter of having the correct match of 32-bit Eclipse/32-bit Java or 64-bit Eclipse/64-bit Java. Many 64-bit Windows have 32-bit browsers and the latter is the version of Java that the auto-installer will provide - not what the 64-bit Eclipse wants.
Make sure the install path of JDK is in your Path variable in Windows.
adding -vm C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_29/bin/javaw.exe to the .ini file helped me.
Is so simple,only add your java path for example:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\bin
in PATH system variable
I have faced the similar issue earlier with Eclipse and STS IDE'S
Please check weather JDK/JRE is available or not in your machine. If not please install JDK and setup the environment variables.
Even after step 1, if you are still facing the issue then it's time to set the vm argument in eclipse.ini or sts.ini in the following way.
-vm
C:Program Files (x86)\Java\jre8\bin
I also had same problem when developing android applications using eclipse IDE.
I solved it by removing all the java installations (I had java 6 and 7 both) and re-install only jdk 7.
I got this fixed by doing the below steps,
1)
The eclipse finds the JAVA executables from 'C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath'
The folder structure will contain shortcuts to the below executables,
i. java.exe
ii. javaw.exe
iii. javaws.exe
For me the executable paths were pointing to my (ProgramFiles(x84)) folder location
I corrected it to Program Files path(64 bit) and the issue got resolved
Please find the screenshot for the same.
Just to add on top of other answers:
Windows Users: You can give the PATH to JRE in eclipse.ini separated by '/' or '\'. It doesn't matter. Eclipse will pick it anyway. For example, in my windows system, either of the paths is fine (after -vm of course):
C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_181/bin
or C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_181\bin
Change the vm value in eclipse.ini file with the correct path to your JDK something like this,
-vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.5.jdk/Contents/Home/bin
Path to eclipse.ini looks to me something like this,
/Users/tomcat/eclipse/jee-2018-09/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse
This sometimes happen if you remove Java from your path variables.
To set the PATH variable again, add the full path of the jdk\bin directory to the PATH variable. Typically, the full path is:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11\bin
To set the PATH variable on Microsoft Windows:
Select Control Panel and then System.
Click Advanced and then Environment Variables.
Add the location of the bin folder of the JDK installation to the
PATH variable in system variables.
I had this problem too on a win7 machine.
I wanted to update the jre with a jdk. So i deleted the jre folder and downloaded and unzipped the new jdk.
The issue was i manually deleted the jre folder, when instead i should've uninstalled it. This leaves a bunch of registry entries that still point to the old jre. Somehow eclipse still wants to use the old jre.
I couldn't uninstall the old java vm, i kept getting this error:
Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor
So i had to use this MS utility to fix the uninstall:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2438651/
Then i had to install again the vm. I installed to the same location the original one was at, to avoid losing another hour! After that eclipse started correctly.
Julio
I just had this problem and fixed it this way. I noticed the error message has jre in it not jre6 or jre7, so i copied jre6 from program files to eclipse folder then renamed it from jre6 to jre, then it worked :p
Newb move on my part, but I had installed just the JRE instead of JDK. Installed JDK and my problem went immediately away.
I had this problem and it was due to my windows machine playing up. I went into control panel -> system -> advanced - environment variables.
I edited the PATH variable (which was already correctly set up), changed NOTHING, clicked OK to come back out of the screens.
Then eclipse worked. No idea why, except because windows. Hopefully this may help someone.
I had this issue; I fixed it by going to
Computer-->Properties-->Advanced Settings-->Environmental Variables
In the System Variables find the variable named PATH.
-->Select Edit
-->At the very end of the Path Variable, put a ";" then add your path of your JDK and put \bin\ at the end
Should be fixed.
Example:
System Variable-
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files.......HP\LeanFT\bin
JDK path-
C:\Programs Files\Java\jre1.8.0_121
Final Path -
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files.......HP\LeanFT\bin;C:\Programs Files\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\
Sources:
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml
Its simple.
JDK bin directory or JRE bin directory should be in path variable
Example :
Java Installed directory:
Assume your java installed in 'C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144' directory
Now you can find bin directory in 'C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144\bin'
Navigate to user's environment variable
Control Panel --> User Accounts --> User Accounts --> Change my environment variables
In popup click Path under User variables for section
Click Edit... button and another popup will appear
Click New button and enter C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144\bin
Click OK button and again OK button in Environment variables popup.
Now you can open your eclipse without error
I found a solution wherein the Eclipse.ini the location was the old version of Java, and after updating the new version of java the location of
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_201\bin
was same so I had to change the directory to my new version of Java.
So solution is to just open the most updated Java version and copying its directory path and replacing it in the Eclipse.ini file.
Moderately future proof example for Linux-like systems. Assuming javac installed and on your path.
./eclipse -vm dirname $(readlink -f $(which javac))
This will find the directory where javac is installed, and pass as vm argument to eclipse.
If on Linux (ex: Ubuntu 18), try installing (or reinstalling in your case?) default-jre, as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install default-jre
I had the same error when just trying to run the Eclipse installer (./eclipse-inst) on a fresh Eclipse download just now, and the installer wouldn't even run! Installing default-jre solved it!
Source:
https://linux4one.com/how-to-install-eclipse-ide-on-ubuntu-18-04/
In my case I had edited the eclipse.ini for a different purpose to include -vm parameter. That was causing the failure. I removed the -vm and following line where I had included \bin and that fixed the problem.
I got ERROR:
RESOLUTION :
in file eclipse.ini at below location :
make change as :
-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_251/jre/bin/server/jvm.dll
Restart eclipse and error will be resolved
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_221\bin
worked for me