java: not found during Stash startup
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Problem
Stash fails to start and the following appears in the catalina.out:
./catalina.sh: 1: eval: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java/bin/java: not found
Cause
The JAVA_HOME
environment variable isn't problem set, so Stash is looking for bin/java
in the wrong place.
Resolution
- Adjust JAVA_HOME for the user running Stash. In the example above it should be
/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
instead of/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java
. - If the path shown in the error persists, confirm JAVA_HOME was adjusted for the correct user.
- If JRE_HOME is also shown as the wrong path, confirms if there's a JRE_HOME variable set, adjusting it as well. If this isn't set, it's just going to take the value from JAVA_HOME.