JDK Crash when attempting to run Minecraft on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

Trying to install Minecraft on 18.04 and I get the following error.

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning:
Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0
 and will likely be removed in a future release.
Unrecognized VM option 'CMSIncrementalMode'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Any suggestions?

Solution 1

I edited my profile. I changed the JVM Arguments from

-Xmx1G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Xmn128M

to

-Xmx1G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Xmn128M

Then Minecraft worked for me.

(I got the Idea from: JVM errors when running minecraft)

Solution 2

Replace openjdk-jre-11 with openjdk-jre-8. Minecraft will not run on newer java versions.

Solution 3

Install MC Installer -

sudo snap install mc-installer

No need to go through JDK/JVM hassle.

Comments

[fosslinux]

While this may be the case, the OP did not say that were using Java 8 or higher. Also, Java 11 does not exist yet.

[karel]

@ubashu Despite the weird nomenclature the openjdk-11-jdk package exists in Ubuntu 18.04.

[fosslinux]

@karel Why is this?

[karel]

It was explained to me in a blog that I forgot which blog it was that Ubuntu 18.04 will launch a new openjdk-10-jdk package when it becomes available, so it can't use openjdk-10-jdk as a package name because that package name has already been reserved.

[Videonauth]

You can add that as well mod's for minecraft are made using java 8, beside that this answer is right and java jre/jdk 8 can be installed alongside the default java 10.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It is enough to have the launcher profile use java 8 to start minecraft, starting the launcher with java 10 is no problem at all.

[Arnaud]

This is similar to Boba Fit's answer.

[Assaf Halevi]

it is not similar because there might be more unrecognized VM options on further runs

[Arnaud]

@Assaf_Halevi, I see. Yet I wonder on the consequences for the stability of the game, of removing these options. Is it not a sign that something else should be changed or updated?

[Assaf Halevi]

you worry too much