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tank8465

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 14

[SOLVED]Minecraft black screen (details inside)

Installed from the AUR, and it isn't working...

Help?

wm: awesome

java -version:

java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.3) (ArchLinux-6.b24_1.11.3-1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

minecraft output:

27 achievements
182 recipes
Setting user: tank8465, 321463696526945437
Exception in thread "Minecraft main thread" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:184)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:657)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$Screen.<init>(XRandR.java:234)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$Screen.<init>(XRandR.java:196)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.populate(XRandR.java:87)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.access$100(XRandR.java:52)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$1.run(XRandR.java:110)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.getConfiguration(XRandR.java:108)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.init(LinuxDisplay.java:618)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:135)
    ... 3 more

Last edited by tank8465 (2012-07-12 23:02:42)

escondida

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Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 157

Re: [SOLVED]Minecraft black screen (details inside)

Have you followed the instructions in the Arch wiki? If I recall correctly, you need to use a different version of lwjgl than the one packaged with minecraft, and your errors do appear to be lwjgl-related. If that's not it, what have you done, setup-wise?

Furthermore, you appear to be using java 6; have you tried the more up-to-date java 7, available in [extra]?

tank8465

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED]Minecraft black screen (details inside)

Thanks!

PReP

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2010-06-13

Posts: 359

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Re: [SOLVED]Minecraft black screen (details inside)

More up to date java is always nice.
On my server/client (i play my server close to daily since version 1.4), i use OpenJRE-7, and follow the main Minecraft releases (currently at 1.2.5)
and the original lwjgl shipped with minecraft. (the stuck-keys bug has been resolved some version ago)

Oh, and yeah, it is the main arch-repo jre: extra/jdk7-openjre

Last edited by PReP (2012-07-13 16:05:05)

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Zancarius

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From: NM, USA

Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 207

Re: [SOLVED]Minecraft black screen (details inside)

More up to date java is always nice.

This is good advice, because updating lwjgl may or may not work.

I've been following the Minecraft subreddit for some time, and many of the black screen/crash-related issues are tied to people using an older version of Java. It works just fine with Java 7, as long as you're using the most recent build of Minecraft. As PReP wrote, this is currently 1.2.5.

Last edited by Zancarius (2012-07-13 18:46:59)

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