$ 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. > > > -- > Mark Derricutt > http://www.theoryinpractice.net > http://plus.google.com/+MarkDerricutt > http://twitter.com/talios > http://facebook.com/mderricutt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
