I have Antergos Linux based on Arch Linux, and java runtime environment 9 from arch repositories. Initial launch, sign in, and downloading minecraft files are successful, but after hitting "play" the client simply crashes. here are the logs:
[18:24:40 INFO]: Minecraft Launcher unknown (through bootstrap 5) started on linux...
[18:24:40 INFO]: Current time is Dec 10, 2017, 6:24:40 PM
[18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Linux'
[18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.version') == '4.14.4-1-ARCH'
[18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
[18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.version') == '9'
[18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
[18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'
[18:24:40 INFO]: proxy == DIRECT
[18:24:40 INFO]: Refreshing local version list...
[18:24:40 INFO]: Refreshing remote version list...
[18:24:41 INFO]: Refresh complete.
[18:24:41 INFO]: Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'ChaletOSLinux'
[18:24:41 INFO]: Refreshing auth...
[18:24:41 INFO]: Logging in with access token
I have Antergos Linux based on Arch Linux, and java runtime environment 9 from arch repositories. Initial launch, sign in, and downloading minecraft files are successful, but after hitting "play" the client simply crashes. here are the logs:
[18:24:40 INFO]: Minecraft Launcher unknown (through bootstrap 5) started on linux... [18:24:40 INFO]: Current time is Dec 10, 2017, 6:24:40 PM [18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Linux' [18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.version') == '4.14.4-1-ARCH' [18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64' [18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.version') == '9' [18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation' [18:24:40 INFO]: System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64' [18:24:40 INFO]: proxy == DIRECT [18:24:40 INFO]: Refreshing local version list... [18:24:40 INFO]: Refreshing remote version list... [18:24:41 INFO]: Refresh complete. [18:24:41 INFO]: Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'ChaletOSLinux' [18:24:41 INFO]: Refreshing auth... [18:24:41 INFO]: Logging in with access tokenupdate: I uninstalled java 9 and installed java 8 from AUR (arch user repositories) and it worked. 9 must be too new.