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icedtea-web: thread 'main' panicked at 'Error spawning JVM process' #456

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My apologies if this issue is a result of me not knowing what I'm doing.

My goal is running JOSM (installed from the extras bucket). Running that after installation returns the error message:

Windows cannot find 'javaw.exe'. Make sure you've typed the name correctly, then try again.

JOSM is a JNLP application which required Java Web Start. Searching around, I found this should be provided by the icedtea-web package from the java bucket. However, installing that package doesn't do anything to the error JOSM returns.

Checking the IcedTea-web package, I do not find javaw.exe but I do find javaws.exe. However, running that returns this error:

selected jre: C:/HOSTED~1/windows/JAVA_T~1/80F51A~1.302/x64/jre
thread 'main' panicked at 'Error spawning JVM process, java executable: [C:/HOSTED~1/windows/JAVA_T~1/80F51A~1.302/x64/jre], arguments: [["-splash:C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\share/icedtea-web\\javaws_splash.png", "-Xbootclasspath/a:C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\share/icedtea-web\\javaws.jar;C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\share/icedtea-web\\plugin.jar;C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\share/icedtea-web\\jsobject.jar;C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\win-deps-runtime\\js.jar;C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\win-deps-runtime\\tagsoup.jar;C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\win-deps-runtime\\mslinks.jar;C:/HOSTED~1/windows/JAVA_T~1/80F51A~1.302/x64/jre\\lib\\ext\\nashorn.jar;", "-classpath", "C:/HOSTED~1/windows/JAVA_T~1/80F51A~1.302/x64/jre\\lib\\rt.jar;C:/HOSTED~1/windows/JAVA_T~1/80F51A~1.302/x64/jre\\lib\\ext\\jfxrt.jar;", "-Dicedtea-web.bin.name=javaws.exe", "-Dicedtea-web.bin.location=C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\scoop\\apps\\icedtea-web\\current\\bin\\javaws.exe", "net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot"]]', src\os_access.rs:42:19
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

System details

Windows version: 10

OS architecture: 64bit

PowerShell version: 5.1.19041.2364 and 7.3.1.

Scoop Configuration

{
  "last_update": "2023-01-09T12:39:26.1297465+01:00",
  "scoop_repo": "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop",
  "scoop_branch": "master"
}

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