JRE installation fails in mac os 10.8

Asked Jan 16 '14 at 08:24

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After deleting all Java installations (multiple Java versions were present) in my Mac from

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/

any new installation of JRE fails with following exception (from /var/log/install.log)

Jan 16 13:28:51 MacBook-LT installd[1171]: ./postinstall: Error occurred during initialization of VM
Jan 16 13:28:51 MacBook-LT installd[1171]: ./postinstall: java.lang.NullPointerException
Jan 16 13:28:51 MacBook-LT installd[1171]: ./postinstall: at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:514)
Jan 16 13:28:51 MacBook-LT installd[1171]: ./postinstall: at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method)
Jan 16 13:28:51 MacBook-LT installd[1171]: ./postinstall: at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1119)

How to recover from this error?

edited Jan 16 '14 at 10:04

BenMorel

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asked Jan 16 '14 at 08:24

avis

did you resolve the issue? – J.P. Armstrong Feb 04 '14 at 05:30
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I reinstalled the OS. – avis Feb 05 '14 at 09:41
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Thanks, I ended up doing the same. – J.P. Armstrong Feb 05 '14 at 14:07
@avis that's an extreme solution! did you try installing Java using `Homebrew` & `homebrew-cask`? see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26252591/mac-os-x-and-multiple-java-versions/29195815#29195815 – Adrien Be Mar 22 '15 at 14:56

JRE installation fails in mac os 10.8

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