$ java -e
Unrecognized option: -g
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. This command is headed
for a disaster of biblical proportions. Real wrath of God type stuff. Fire
and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit, causing forty
years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... Human sacrifice, dogs and cats
living together... mass hysteria!

On 18 December 2014 at 01:28, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 18 Dec 2014, at 2:05, Graham Allan wrote:
>
> > I also get that same error when I run "java -v", it's just that '-v' is
> an invalid argument, the correct flag is '-version' (assuming that's what
> you intended):
> >
> > $ java -v
> > Unrecognized option: -v
> > Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
> > Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
> > $ java -version
> > java version "1.7.0\_21"
> > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0\_21-b11)
> > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.21-b01, mixed mode)
>
> It amuses to this day that this has never been fixed.  No one in hell
> should that be a "fatal exception" - I understand why it is, but that
> message has always seemed overly....dramatic.
>
>
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