Cannot determine current directory

Question

I am trying to run a .jar file that was created successfully in Netbeans and I am receiving the following error:

Error occurred during initialization of V

Answer 1

Solution: cd to another directory and run that command again, that works for me.

See explanation here: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8186434

Answer 2

I saw the same error when I was trying to call java -version inside a directory, which I already had deleted from another terminal session. Of course in that case java could not determine the current working directory, simply because it didn't exist.

Answer 3

I was having this error in my mac, when I start tomcat from my eclipse. After setting JAVA_HOME and restarting the eclipse, the error is fixed.

Answer 4

In Fedora 21, I tried calling the "java -version" after an uninstall and it gave the above error. Close all the terminals and open them again and try.

Should work.

Answer 5

maybe you did not config java environment on your workstation correctly

the following configurations were what I did in my mac

vi ~/.bash_profile

and add those in it

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH:.
CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/dt.jar:.
export JAVA_HOME
export PATH
export CLASSPATH

replace

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home

with your jdk version and then run

source ~/.bash_profile

to use these config immediately then you can check by

java -version