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Hello,

Yesterday I ran Minecraft on my linux machine to play with my friends. After I logged in, the update check was successful (nothing updated), and the screen went dark. I have heard of this issue on modified clients before, but never vanilla clients. Trying to troubleshoot, I did several google searches. None of the solutions worked.

I have both OpenJDK 7 and Oracle Java 7 installed. Both have the same result.

Please note that Minecraft has run on this system before... (Even in this update)

System specs:

• 64-bit
• Intel® Core™ i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz × 4
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2
• 5.8 GiB ram
• Linux Mint 13 "Maya"

Running from terminal gives me this error at the black screen:

Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/david/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: /home/david/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1939)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1864)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1825)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:792)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1059)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:69)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:65)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:81)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:98)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.F(SourceFile:1857)
at aof.<init>(SourceFile:20)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.<init>(SourceFile:77)
at anw.<init>(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.client.MinecraftApplet.init(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.Launcher.replace(Launcher.java:136)
at net.minecraft.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:79)

From the "solutions" I have found on google, I have tried:

• Replacing the ~/.minecraft/bin/natives with newer versions off the web.
• Installing and using Oracle Java 7 instead.
• Deleting my ~/.minecraft folder.
• Redownloading my launcher.
• Running Minecraft from a script.
• Using the web client (gets stuck at "done loading")

Any ideas?

Basically, you have just come up with the entire list of basic stuff to try. I'd bet that your ~/.minecraft/bin folder is missing a jar. If you don't have minecraft.jar in there, that's your problem. Try doing a force update first thigns first, then going on to everything in that list above.

Quote from jjordan12

Basically, you have just come up with the entire list of basic stuff to try. I'd bet that your ~/.minecraft/bin folder is missing a jar. If you don't have minecraft.jar in there, that's your problem. Try doing a force update first thigns first, then going on to everything in that list above.

That list is what I have tried. From what I can tell, there isn't anything missing in my bin folder. I have also already tried a force update.

Bump

Still looking for help on this issue.

I had a similar problem and after a day of searching found the solution. Here is the link to my thread http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1514307-client-crash-on-start-linux/page__hl__ minecraft black screen linux