在centos 6.5中升级后，java返回VM错误

Question

I want to upgrade my jdk on a centos server, after some simple searches i found some solutions.

from this link you can see that the instructions are simple: jdk 7 installation guide for centos

-install your jdk from rpm package or from source

-do some alternatives

-check the practical version (java -version)

and i go easy with the first two steps but in check version step i get this error:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

i have also checked alternatives --config java and simbolic links.

i have also tried which command to find out what java is actually running and this was the link directoins.

/usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/java/jdk-1.8.0_40/bin/java

the weird point is when i run /usr/bin/java -version it is OK and it returns the version but when i run java without any prefix i got that error.

so what is the problem?

Answer 1

you may need to setup CLASSPATH variable so that jvm could load needed libraries.

see this post https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/paths.html