If you fix this error you will have saved the lives of millions of
vot^H^H^H coders.

-C


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Graham Allan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> $ 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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