Forge crashes on start

[bitman]

Hi

 

I can't run Forge and any help is much appreciated.

 

Successfully installed forge installer forge-1.14.4-28.1.106-installer.jar

Started the Minecraft Launcher 2.1.9618

Started forge-1.14.4-28.1.106

The game window comes up for a few seconds (1 or 2 sec) showing the white screen where you can read information about the program like Heap Memory ...

Then it collapses already and I read the message in the launcher: An unexpected issue occured and the game has crashed. We're sorry for the inconveniences

System is Linux with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

 

java -version
openjdk version "11.0.5" 2019-10-15
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5+10-post-Debian-1deb10u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.5+10-post-Debian-1deb10u1, mixed mode, sharing)

 

I tried with an emty fresh .minecraft folder, no mods etc, same result

 

Works fine with Minecraft Vanilla or Fabric

 

~/minecraft/logs/debug.log
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.379] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at org.objectweb.asm.tree.MethodNode.accept(MethodNode.java:807)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.380] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at org.objectweb.asm.tree.MethodNode.accept(MethodNode.java:687)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.380] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at org.objectweb.asm.tree.ClassNode.accept(ClassNode.java:436)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.380] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at cpw.mods.modlauncher.ClassTransformer.transform(ClassTransformer.java:121)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.381] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at cpw.mods.modlauncher.TransformingClassLoader$DelegatedClassLoader.findClass(TransformingClassLoader.java:241)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.381] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at cpw.mods.modlauncher.TransformingClassLoader.loadClass(TransformingClassLoader.java:128)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.381] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at cpw.mods.modlauncher.TransformingClassLoader.loadClass(TransformingClassLoader.java:98)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.382] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.382] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:57)
[13Dec2019 22:06:11.382] [main/INFO] [STDERR/]: [java.lang.Throwable:printStackTrace:648]:      ... 10 more

 

Edited December 14, 2019 by bitman
fixed a mistake in my failure description which was misleading and could make it less usefull for people with the same problem

[DaemonUmbra]

Forge for 1.13+ requires Java 8-10

Forge for 1.12.2- requires Java 8

[bitman]

excellent, I got it working with your help, thanks a lot

 

This is the first time that my Debian has too new software

 

For those who might find this thread because they have the same issue. This is how I got the older Java 8 on my system

 

I am on Debian 10 (buster), which brings Java 10.

I need Java 8, which was standard in Debian 9 (stretch)

So we need to make the pakets of Debian 9 available and install Java 8 from there

 

1) Edit sources list and add the Debian 9 stretch repository
 

root@bluespark:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch main

 

2) make new repositoy known

root@bluespark:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease                            
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease                    
Ign:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release [118 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release.gpg [2,365 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages [7,086 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en [5,385 kB]
Fetched 12.6 MB in 3s (4,263 kB/s)                               
Reading package lists... Done

 

3) search and find Java 8

root@bluespark:~# apt-cache search -t stretch openjdk-8
nvidia-openjdk-8-jre - NVIDIA provided OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
default-jdk - Standard Java or Java compatible Development Kit
default-jdk-doc - Standard Java or Java compatible Development Kit (documentation)
default-jdk-headless - Standard Java or Java compatible Development Kit (headless)
openjdk-8-dbg - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (debugging symbols)
openjdk-8-demo - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (demos and examples)
openjdk-8-doc - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) documentation
openjdk-8-jdk - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
openjdk-8-jdk-headless - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) (headless)
openjdk-8-jre - OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
openjdk-8-jre-headless - OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
openjdk-8-jre-zero - Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero/Shark
openjdk-8-source - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) source files
openjdk-8-jre-dcevm - Alternative VM for OpenJDK 8 with enhanced class redefinition
uwsgi-plugin-jvm-openjdk-8 - Java plugin for uWSGI (OpenJDK 8)
uwsgi-plugin-jwsgi-openjdk-8 - JWSGI plugin for uWSGI (OpenJDK 8)
uwsgi-plugin-ring-openjdk-8 - Closure/Ring plugin for uWSGI (OpenJDK 8)
uwsgi-plugin-servlet-openjdk-8 - JWSGI plugin for uWSGI (OpenJDK 8)

 

4) install Java 8 from Debian 9 stretch repository

root@bluespark:~# apt-get install -t stretch openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  openjdk-8-jdk-headless
Suggested packages:
  openjdk-8-demo openjdk-8-source visualvm icedtea-8-plugin fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei fonts-wqy-zenhei
Recommended packages:
  libxt-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 142 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 openjdk-8-jre-headless amd64 8u222-b10-1~deb9u1 [27.3 MB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 openjdk-8-jre amd64 8u222-b10-1~deb9u1 [69.2 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 openjdk-8-jdk-headless amd64 8u222-b10-1~deb9u1 [8,247 kB]
::::

 

5) Find Java 8 now being available and select it
 

root@bluespark:~# update-alternatives --config java
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                            Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java      1111      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java      1111      manual mode
  2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1081      manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 2
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in manual mode

 

6) check again
 

root@bluespark:~# update-alternatives --config java
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                            Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java      1111      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java      1111      manual mode
* 2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1081      manual mode

 

7) start the minecraft launcher and successfully run Forge