You have a general classpath problem... It can't find the
java.lang.Thread class, which is the first class loaded by the JVM.
In JDK 1.1, -classpath commandline option will supercede any classpath
defined in the environment and also the default one for its own runtime
classes.
If you have the jre, you specify
/usr/bin/jre -cp . BurnIT
where -cp appends to the other classpaths...
And if you don't, you need to find the location of classes.zip or rt.jar
(I am not sure what IBM call it, probably the former).
And the specify
/usr/bin/java -classpath .:<classes.zip_directory>/classes.zip BurnIT
Niclas
Sebastián Ferraro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use java under Linux for the first time. I have:
>
> JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-19991221 (JIT enabled: jitc)
> RedHat 6.0
> Kernel 2.2.13
>
> I try to run BurnIt (a java front-end to a CD-burner):
>
> cd /usr/local/BurnIT
> /usr/bin/java -classpath . BurnIT
>
> And I get the following message:
>
> Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
>
> That java/lang/Thread file does not exist - I don't even have that
> directory anywhere in my disk. I tried blackdown's JDK too, but I get a
> similar error message (tries to access a file that does not exist).
>
> What could be the problem? All I want to do is run a simple java
> program.
>
> Regards,
>
> Seba
