java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
Solution
Caused by broken Java installation.
Download and install the Minecraft Installer from https://minecraft.net/download
Click "Edit Profile" and uncheck the Executable box
(courtesy of [Mod] CubeTheThird)
Strange launch failure happening. No crash report, just a refusal to play. Previously I was getting the Java SE error, but I cleaned out my old Java and got the latest, now this happens.
Refreshing local version list... Launcher 1.2.5 (through bootstrap 5) started on windows... Current time is Oct 1, 2013 4:26:31 PM System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7' System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1' System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86' System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_40' System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation' System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32' Refreshing remote version list... Refresh complete. Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'Cubes4THEWIN' Refreshing auth... Logging in with access token Delta time to compare resources: 670 ms Download job 'Resources' skipped as there are no files to download Job 'Resources' finished successfully Getting syncinfo for selected version Queueing library & version downloads Download job 'Version & Libraries' started (8 threads, 19 files) Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput-platform\2.0.5\jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\argo\argo\2.25_fixed\argo-2.25_fixed.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl-platform\2.9.0\lwjgl-platform-2.9.0-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\14.0\guava-14.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.2\gson-2.2.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\bouncycastle\bcprov-jdk15on\1.47\bcprov-jdk15on-1.47.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Finished downloading C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.6.4\1.6.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag Job 'Version & Libraries' finished successfully Launching game Looking for old natives to clean up... Unpacking natives to C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.6.4\1.6.4-natives-2353396448977 Launching in C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft Running C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx512M -Djava.library.path=C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.6.4\1.6.4-natives-2353396448977 -cp C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\argo\argo\2.25_fixed\argo-2.25_fixed.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\bouncycastle\bcprov-jdk15on\1.47\bcprov-jdk15on-1.47.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\14.0\guava-14.0.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.2\gson-2.2.2.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.6.4\1.6.4.jar net.minecraft.client.main.Main --username Cubes4THEWIN --session token:4ac3f2d3f0304cabb7856e8a13909325:7e9a356ada1a49848fc717c2a5bccdd6 --version 1.6.4 --gameDir C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft --assetsDir C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets Couldn't launch game java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe" (in directory "C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source) at net.minecraft.launcher.process.JavaProcessLauncher.start(JavaProcessLauncher.java:25) at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.launchGame(GameLauncher.java:285) at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.onDownloadJobFinished(GameLauncher.java:507) at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.popAndDownload(DownloadJob.java:112) at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.access$000(DownloadJob.java:10) at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob$1.run(DownloadJob.java:84) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source) ... 12 more Deleting C:\Users\Blake Pereira\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.6.4\1.6.4-natives-2353396448977
What I expected to happen was...:
for the game to play
What actually happened was...:
Nothing
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on minecraft.
2. Auto-login.
3. Hit play button.
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