Crash Jetbrains ide with Yosemite Mac osX (Webstorm, intellij)

Question

This is a tip in reference to Yosemite ´s users (10.10). Yosemite erase 1.6 apple jdk and install 1.7, but JAVA´s IDE for example Intellij or Eclipse needs 1.6, if you haven´t reinstalled this version, your ide will crash at the beginning... after this process you can configure your ide with 1.7 version.

Here the link : Apple JDK 1.6

Answer 1

It's easy to change Jetbrains' products to use jdk1.7:

1. Open Application folder
2. Choose Jetbrains product you use
3. RightClick and choose 'show package content' <- I dont know how exactly it is in english version of OS
4. Choose Contents
5. Double Click Info.plist

6. Find:

   <key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.6*</string>

7. and change to:

   <key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.7*</string>

8. Save and quit,

9. Enjoy!

Answer 2

Please do not edit your Info.plist file as it will break the application digital signature and prevent the patch updates .

I was able to get phpStorm working properly again on my Mac ( Yosemite ) by installing this apple support package: Java for OS X 2014-001Java

This package installs the same version of Java 6 included in Java for OS X 2013-005 which apparently plays nice with JetBrains.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Apple 1.6 is still required to run JetBrains IDEs. There should be a window with the suggestion to install Java when you start the product for the first time, but it could be hidden by other application windows. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/27854363-IDE-doesn-t-start-after-updating-to-Mac-OS-Yosemite-or-Mavericks

Answer 4

Since today, PHPStorm 9 comes with a special Yosemite version including JDK 1.8.

This alternative PhpStorm 9 distribution bundles JDK 1.8 customized by the JetBrains team for better performance. Please note this non-default option may contain some issues.

No more issues with java...

Answer 5

Reinstalling libpng helped me after hours of tries and checking all possible causes:

brew uninstall --force libpng
brew install libpng

Tested on Mac OS X Sierra (10.12.1) with WebStorm 2016.2