[MC-3279] Minecraft doesn't work under Java 7 on 64 bit Linux. Created: 17/Nov/12  Updated: 03/May/15  Resolved: 17/Nov/12

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.4
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Jacob Ryan Kiesel Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Invalid Votes: 0
Labels: None
Environment:

64 bit Ubuntu, bug has been present across multiple versions of Ubuntu and multiple versions of Minecraft.


Attachments: PNG File bug.png    
Confirmation Status: Unconfirmed

 Description   

When the player starts the game using 64bit Java 7 on seemingly any 64bit Linux machine the light weight java gaming library breaks down and wont display anything but a black screen. This screenshot was taken before installing ia32-libs, after installing it and testing again though, it brought up the same error. Also tried getting it working with 32 bit java 7, but that brought a similiar message although rather than being a 32 bit word mismatch, it was a 64 bit word mismatch.



 Comments   
Comment by Jacob Ryan Kiesel [ 18/Nov/12 ]

Well it seems to me like it would probably take only 20 minutes to create a seperate folder on the server with the updated LWJGL files and make the launcher download those instead of the default when it's on a Linux system. Clearly the launcher is already capable of identifying which OS it's running on, otherwise it'd download the natives for all OSes,

Comment by [Mod] CubeTheThird [ 18/Nov/12 ]

Simply put, the same version is packaged with all distributions of minecraft. Newer versions also cause problems with the client on other operating systems, which are more difficult to fix than simply updating.

Comment by Jacob Ryan Kiesel [ 18/Nov/12 ]

Wow! It works amazingly well after having done that, why aren't these packaged with MC for Linux by default? It's a pretty major bug with a freakishly easy fix.

Comment by [Mod] CubeTheThird [ 17/Nov/12 ]

Update your LWJGL here

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