Trouble Shooting

Trouble Shooting

Problems encountered when installing jenv via brew

scenario

After adding the following to your .bash_profile as per suggestion when installing jenv using brew.

# To enable shims and autocompletion add to your profile:
if which jenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(jenv init -)"; fi

# To use Homebrew's directories rather than ~/.jenv add to your profile:
export JENV_ROOT=/usr/local/opt/jenv

Then, when you tried to add a java version using jenv like so:

jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home

You may receive the following error:

ln: /usr/local/opt/jenv/versions/oracle64-1.7.0.51: No such file or directory

solution 1 (deprecated - see solution 2)

The implication of installing jenv using brew seems to be that you need to use sudo in order to use jenv. So to solve the aforementioned issue, add sudo to the command like so:

sudo jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home

This applies when using any jenv command. For example using jenv versions gives the following output:

* system (set by /usr/local/opt/jenv/version)

However, after prefixing with sudo to the command e.g. sudo jenv versions will give the correct results such as below:

* system (set by /Users/[your-username]/.jenv/version)
  oracle64-1.6.0.65
  oracle64-1.7.0.51

solution 2

By adding the following to your .bash_profile, you will not have to use sudo when using jenv.

export JENV_ROOT=/usr/local/opt/jenv

If you still get the same error try this first:

$ jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/
ln: /Users/user/.jenv/versions/oracle64-1.8.0.152: No such file or directory
# Try this to resolve:
$ mkdir -p /Users/user/.jenv/versions/oracle64-1.8.0.152
$ jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/
# After this other java versions should no longer error out.

Java binary in path is not in the jenv shims.

If, when running jenv doctor, you see

[ERROR]	Java binary in path is not in the jenv shims.
[ERROR]	Please check your path, or try using /path/to/java/home is not a valid path to java installation.

make sure export JENV_ROOT=/usr/local/opt/jenv appears before if which jenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(jenv init -)"; fi in .bash_profile.

Git Bash on Windows

.jenv/bin/jenv: line 1: ../libexec/jenv: No such file or directory

This is related to symlinks the next issue.

1. Start by enabling symlinks issue below.
2. After symlinks has been enabled. In Git Bash navigate to jenv location. Default is ~/.jenv
3. Enable symlinks for the repository git config core.symlinks true
4. Do a new checkout of bin/jenv run git checkout -- bin/jenv
   Your problems should be solved.

Symlinks aren't working https://stackoverflow.com/a/40914277

It seems that it becomes a full copy instead of a symlink ~/.jenv/versions should have a size of 0, but without symlinks this grows fast since each alias is a full copy of the JVM.

1. You need to run Git Bash as administrator (can be configure to always run as administrator under Properties -> Compatibility, make sure you know what this means).
2. In Git Bash run export MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict this could be added to ~/.bash_profile