Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:13:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> Try by manually forcing the full path to java bin:
>>
>> ***
>> ./eclipse -debug -vm
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java ***
>>   
> Thanks for the trick. It first gives a box `No exit data available',
> then
> 
> ==
> Start VM:
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java

At least that path looks more "normal".

(...)

> -jar
> /home/merciadriluca/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
> 
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object 

It seems failing to load that ".jar" (is that "equinox" a plugin you 
can omit just for testing?) :-?

(...)

> (quite the same as before).

Yes, it gets stuck at that point.

>> Also, run "which java" and put here the output
> ==
> $ which java
> /usr/local/bin/java

sm01@stt008:~$ which java
/usr/bin/java

> merciadriluca@merciadriluca-station:/usr/local/bin$ ls -al | grep java
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root staff     59 2010-08-14 15:58 java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/bin/java

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 14  2009 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java
 
> I can't understand why it does not work.

Me neither... maybe it's just an Eclipse issue. Can you launch any other 
java application and see if that works?

P.S. Also, consider unistalling Sun's java package (the one downloaded from 
Oracle site) and getting the Sun's java package from Debian "non-free" 
repo :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón