JVM version misreported?

[SteveR-Ncl]

A student in my class is having trouble setting up Overture on his Mac, due to a warning about his version of JVM. He says he's got 1.8 installed, but he's getting the error "Version 1.6_65 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version 1.7 or greater is required"

Have you seen any problems with incorrect version being reported? If that's unlikely, I'll get him to check he hasn't actually got 2 versions of JVM on his machine.

cheers, Steve

[ldcouto]

Hey Steve.

There are 2 possibilites. The first is, like you say, he has multiple JVMs installed (the installer for Java 8 is famous for causing a lot of path issues with multiple JVMs).

There is also a possibility that he has the 64 bit version of Overture and 32bit Java or vice-versa.

I can help trace the problem but I'll need more information. What's the output of java --version on the command line? And the output of echo $JAVA_HOME?

[ldcouto]

This sounds like a similar problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24598465/eclipse-in-os-x-uses-different-version-of-java-than-cli

[SteveR-Ncl]

Thanks Luis - I've passed that on to the student, will let you know what
he comes back with.
-Steve

On 11/03/2015 11:27, "Luis Diogo Couto" [email protected] wrote:

This sounds like a similar problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24598465/eclipse-in-os-x-uses-different
-version-of-java-than-cli
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[peterwvj]

Related to #414

[ldcouto]

@peterwvj , I'm not 100% sure it is actually. It might be, though.

[ldcouto]

Hey @SteveR-Ncl , just checking in to make sure this is solved on your end.

[SteveR-Ncl]

Hi Louis, yep, sorry for not getting back, the student hasn't responded to me (I sent him your suggested fixes) so I assume it's resolved. I'll close.