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My friend has an error that comes up whenever he tries to start the launcher.

Bootstrap started
FATAL ERROR: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: address
at java.net.InetAddress.init(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator$1.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator.getSystemEntropy(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom$SeederHolder.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.engineNextBytes(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureRandom.next(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Random.nextInt(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.engineInit(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getDefault(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URL.openConnection(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Downloader.getConnection(Downloader.java:151)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Downloader.run(Downloader.java:46)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:80)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:367)

Please fix the error and restart.

He's running on Windows 7 and says he's downloaded the launcher several times to make sure something in the download didn't screw up. He also downloaded the most recent java so I have no idea what his problem is. Any help would be appreciated.

Also there was an older solution on the forums here. But it did not work seem for my friend.

Batch files are iffy with the new launcher. In the edit profiles selection, there is a JVM Argument section. Put this in the JVM Arguments and run the launcher. Basically you will do what the guy in the help you linked said to do, but with the new launcher and using JVM, not batch files.

set appdata=%CD%
minecraftdev.exe

Should work, they included a way to run arguments in the launcher instead of the batch file, thank you SOO much Mojang!

Ah, fixed it. He didn't download the newest java like he told me :/ Thank you for the help though. I hope it helps someone out in the future.

I think I have the same problem, on Windows 7, but I'm having trouble understanding the given solution.

Whenever I try to start the launcher from my desktop, I get an error message that reads,

Java Virtual Machine Launcher
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Feel a bit like a baby, but could I get some step-by-step instructions on how to fix this. And yes, I literally just updated Java, so I know it's not that.