Error Could not create the Java Virtual Machine Mac OSX Mavericks

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I just installed the latest Java SDK 7-67 from Oracle on the Mac 10 9 4  I then ran the command java -v in Terminal and I get this message      Error  Could not create the Java Virtual Machine    Error  A fatal exception has occurred  Program will exit

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Unrecognized option  - Error  Could not create the Java Virtual Machine  Error  A fatal exception has occurred  Program will exit   I was getting this Error due to incorrect syntax using in the terminal  I was using java - version  But its actually is java -version  there is no space between - and version  you can also cross check by using java -help   i hope this will help

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if you tried running java with -version argument  and even though the problem could not be solved by any means  then you might have installed many java versions  like JDK 1 8 and JDK 1 7 at the same time   So try uninstalling all other versions other than the one you need  then set the JAVA HOMEpath variable for that JDK remaining  and you re done

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So try uninstalling all other versions other than the one you need  then set the JAVA HOMEpath variable for that JDK remaining  and you re done    That s worked for me  I have two JDK  version 8  amp  11  installed on my local mac  that causes the issue  for uninstalling  I followed these two steps    cd  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines rm -rf openjdk-11 0 1 jdk

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There can be one more reason for such behavior - you delete current working directory    For example      in terminal  1 cd  home user myJavaApp    in terminal  2 rm -rf  home user myJavaApp    in terminal  1 java -jar myJar jar  Error  Could not create the Java Virtual Machine  Error  A fatal exception has occurred  Program will exit

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Try   java -version    then if you see java 11  try to delete with terminal   cd  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines rm -rf openjdk-11 0 1 jdk  if it doesn t try delete manually  1  click on finder  2  go to folder 3  post  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines 4  delete java 11    then try java version and you will see   java version  1 8 0 191

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Normally this error occurs when you invoke java by supplying the wrong arguments options  In this case it should be the version option    java -version   So to double check you can always do java -help  and see if the option exists  In this case  there is no option such as v

[java] Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine Mac OSX Mavericks

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