JRE 1.7 – java version – returns: java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

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This problem stems from an improper Java installation.

Possibility 1

NOTE: This scenario only applies to Java 8 and prior. Beginning with Java 9, the JRE is structured differently. rt.jar and friends no longer exist, and Pack200 is no longer used.

The Java standard library is contained in various JARs, such as rt.jar, deploy.jar, jsse.jar, etc. When the JRE is packaged, these critical JAR files are compressed with Pack200 and stored as rt.pack, deploy.pack, jsse.pack, etc. The Java installer is supposed to uncompress them. If you are experiencing this error, apparently that didn’t happen.

You need to manually run unpack200 on all .pack files in the JRE’s lib/ and lib/ext/ folders.

Windows

To unpack one .pack file (for example rt.pack), run:

"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\unpack200" -r -v rt.pack rt.jar

To recursively unpack all .pack files, from the JRE root run:

for /r %f in (*.pack) do "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\unpack200.exe" -r -q "%f" "%~pf%~nf.jar"

*nix

To unpack one .pack file (for example rt.pack), run:

/usr/bin/unpack200 -r -v rt.pack rt.jar

To recursively unpack all .pack files, from the JRE root run:

find -iname "*.pack" -exec sh -c "/usr/bin/unpack200 -r -q {} \$(echo {} | sed 's/\(.*\.\)pack/\1jar/')" \;

Possibility 2

You misinstalled Java in some other way. Perhaps you installed without admin rights, or tried to simply extract files out of the installer. Try again with the installer and/or more privileges. Or, if you don’t want to use the installer, use the .tar.gz Java package instead.

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