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[IDV #IQI-544424]: Unable to install IDV 5 on Mac OS X 10.9.4

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  • Subject: [IDV #IQI-544424]: Unable to install IDV 5 on Mac OS X 10.9.4
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:29:08 -0600
Jim,

Thanks. Those are good diagnostics. With thread KCN-689298 I suspected there 
were
multiple users (maybe an admin and regular user) on the machine in question that
may have been the source of the problem.

Is this the case on your machine? Are there several users?

Best,

Unidata IDV Support

> Hi.
> 
> When I attempt to run the IDV installer for Mac OS X, it silently fails.
> I found the support email thread KCN-689298, and when I tried the last
> suggested action (running JavaApplicationStub from the command line) I get
> 
> [JavaAppLauncher Warning] Java application launched from bad stub.
> Relaunching in 32-bit, and tagging sub-processes to prefer 32-bit with
> $JAVA_ARCH=i386.
> [JavaAppLauncher Error] This process is [i386] and was re-exec'd from
> [i386], but for some reason we are trying re-exec to [].
> [JavaAppLauncher Error] unable to find a version of Java to launch
> 
> I am running Mac OS X 10.9.4. The output from java -version is
> 
> java version "1.7.0_45"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)
> 
> Grace and peace,
> 
> Jim Biard
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: IQI-544424
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed