Problems starting fiji from terminal (on Mac)

[Florian Jug]

Hi *,

since I need to run fiji using a JDK>1.6 I do usually start it from terminal using:
/Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx --java-home /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_71.jdk/Contents/Home/‘

For some obscure reason this seems not to work any longer.
A few things I noticed and might help some of you to help me:

If I start fiji by double clicking Fiji.app in /Applications… everything works just fine!
Strangely enough, also this would start fiji just fine:
export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_6_HOME
/Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
But directly after calling the following two lines will make fiji hang again:
export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_7_HOME
/Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
Same is true by switching to 1.8.

This means that I am currently not able to run fiji, except I comply to Java 1.6.

Any ideas for how to fix this VERY welcome and desperately needed!

Cheers,
Florian

PS@Curtis: thanks for yesterdays help!



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[Florian Jug]

I solved it… and it is not beautiful.
I rebooted my machine (which only had an uptime of some hours anyways) and now everything works.

I have no idea why and it seems I will never find out…

Hope I did not cause anybody to loose time trying to find the cause for this weird thing,
Florian

> On 09 Feb 2015, at 11:00, Florian Jug <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi *,
>
> since I need to run fiji using a JDK>1.6 I do usually start it from terminal using:
> /Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx --java-home /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_71.jdk/Contents/Home/‘
>
> For some obscure reason this seems not to work any longer.
> A few things I noticed and might help some of you to help me:
>
> If I start fiji by double clicking Fiji.app in /Applications… everything works just fine!
> Strangely enough, also this would start fiji just fine:
> export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_6_HOME
> /Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
> But directly after calling the following two lines will make fiji hang again:
> export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_7_HOME
> /Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
> Same is true by switching to 1.8.
>
> This means that I am currently not able to run fiji, except I comply to Java 1.6.
>
> Any ideas for how to fix this VERY welcome and desperately needed!
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
> PS@Curtis: thanks for yesterdays help!
>
>

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[John Minter]

Hi Florian?

Did your computer automatically update Java? The current release of Oracle
Java 1.7 is 1.7.0_75... Take a peek at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines to
see what's there...

Best regards,
John

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Florian Jug <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi *,
>
> since I need to run fiji using a JDK>1.6 I do usually start it from
> terminal using:
> /Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx --java-home
> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_71.jdk/Contents/Home/'
>
> For some obscure reason this seems not to work any longer.
> A few things I noticed and might help some of you to help me:
>
> If I start fiji by double clicking Fiji.app in /Applications... everything
> works just fine!
> Strangely enough, also this would start fiji just fine:
> export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_6_HOME
> /Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
> But directly after calling the following two lines will make fiji hang
> again:
> export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_7_HOME
> /Applications/Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
> Same is true by switching to 1.8.
>
> This means that I am currently not able to run fiji, except I comply to
> Java 1.6.
>
> Any ideas for how to fix this VERY welcome and desperately needed!
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
> PS@Curtis: thanks for yesterdays help!
>
>
>
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>

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