Bug 567 – Unable to launch Fiji in all versions since 15/02/2013

Bug 567 - Unable to launch Fiji in all versions since 15/02/2013


Summary:	Unable to launch Fiji in all versions since 15/02/2013

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Fiji
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Windows

Importance:	P5 critical
Assigned To:	ImageJ Bugs Mailing List

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2013-02-18 15:07 CST by Fabian
Modified:	2013-02-18 18:51 CST
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Fabian 2013-02-18 15:07:35 CST

Since the auto-update on 15/02/2013, Fiji does not start any more. Errors displayed are:

Error: Could not create the Java virtual machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occured. Program will exit.

All steps described on http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Fix_non-functional_Fiji_after_Update have been followed and a new version of Fiji has been installed on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Furthermore, Java was reinstalled cleanly. The newest versions of ImageJ and older versions of Fiji work fine.

Machine is an Intel i7 notebook with Windows 7 64 Professional.

Comment 1 Johannes Schindelin 2013-02-18 16:35:54 CST

Please copy ImageJ-win64.exe to debug.exe and start it from there. You should see a console pop up that contains useful information that I ask you to paste here (you can right-click the upper-left window icon, select Properties... and activate the Quick Edit mode. After that, dragging with the left mouse button can mark things, a right mouse button click copies the marked area into the clipboard).

Comment 2 Johannes Schindelin 2013-02-18 18:51:00 CST

Vince Hradil responded:

-- snip --
JRE not found in 'C:\Fiji.app/jre'
No JRE was found in default locations
java -Dpython.cachedir.skip=true -Dplugins.dir=C:\\Fiji.app -Xmx1529m
-Xincgc -XX:PermSize=128m -Dsun.java.command=ImageJ -Djava.class.path=C:\\Fiji.app/jars/ij -launcher-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -Dimagej.dir=C:\\Fiji.app -Dij.dir=C:\\Fiji.app -Dfiji.dir=C:\\Fiji.app -Dfiji.defaultLibPath=bin/client/jvm.dll -Dfiji.executable=C:\\Fiji.app\\debug.exe -Dij.executable=C:\\Fiji.app\\debug.exe -Djava.library.path=C:\\Fiji.app/lib/win32 -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true imagej.ClassLauncher -classpath C:\\Fiji.app/jars/ij-1.47k.jar fiji.Main -port7
Warning: falling back to system Java
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
-- snap --

As a work-around, set JAVA_HOME to C:\Fiji.app\java\win64\jdk1.6.0_24, e.g. by calling "cmd" from the Start menu's "Run" item and the issuing the following commands:

 c:
 cd Fiji.app
 set JAVA_HOME=C:\Fiji.app\java\win64\jdk1.6.0_24
 ImageJ-win64.exe

It will want to run the updater and update ImageJ-win64.exe. However, you will have to run it once again with JAVA_HOME set as described above to fix things.