Minecraft hangs on black screen after login

[mcrbids]

Here's something like what I saw: Exception in thread "Minecraft main thread" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/ME/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: /home/ME/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)

I had the problem mentioned here at ArchLinux: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126112 and wanted to document the quick fix so that future google hunters can find this tidbit of wisdom. From this link, I wrote a script as follows:


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#! /bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.1.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64"
cd /home/bens/bin && java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp ~/bin/Minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame
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I got the path by
$ rpm -qa | grep -i java

and then
$ rpm -ql java-1.7.0-openjdk-LATEST-VERSION-FROM-PREVIOUS | grep -i jre

[Omega420]

Alright so that did NOT work for my system, Fedora 16 what DID work was opening my minecraft folder then adding the terminal panel with F4 and pasting this into the terminal

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.1.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64"
java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame

and that worked like a charm! but you HAVE to have the minecraft folder open with a terminal docked.

what i would like to know is how to get this to work without having to do this every time i want to play minecraft. it seems that i only have to do.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.1.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64"

Once per computer start. and i tried to create a launcher so i can just click to start minecraft but having no luck, im new to linux so if you guide me make sure its in the noob lanuage pls

[crazymonito]

I just had the same problem, and here is what worked for me:

1. Go to http://lwjgl.org/download.php
2. Click the link to download the newest stable release
3. Download lwjgl-x.x.x.zip (lwjgl-2.8.3.zip at the time of writing)
4. Go to your home folder and press ctrl + h to show your hidden files
5. Go to .minecraft/bin and copy the matching .jar files from the jar folder in the zip that you downloaded into there
6. Copy the .so files from the native/linux folder in the zip file to .minecraft/bin/natives
7. Launch Minecraft

Hope that helps!

[spacelad101]

I just had the same problem, and here is what worked for me:

1. Go to http://lwjgl.org/download.php
2. Click the link to download the newest stable release
3. Download lwjgl-x.x.x.zip (lwjgl-2.8.3.zip at the time of writing)
4. Go to your home folder and press ctrl + h to show your hidden files
5. Go to .minecraft/bin and copy the matching .jar files from the jar folder in the zip that you downloaded into there
6. Copy the .so files from the native/linux folder in the zip file to .minecraft/bin/natives
7. Launch Minecraft

Hope that helps!

THANK-YOU SOO MUCH! You have no idea how long I have been trying to get it to work and then this!

[foggie]

That worked like a charm for me too. Thank you!!

[MegaSquid]

Even if I follow those seven steps I keep getting this:

Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/anonymous/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:69)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:65)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:81)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:98)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.F(SourceFile:1857)
at aof.<init>(SourceFile:20)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.<init>(SourceFile:7 7)
at anw.<init>(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.client.MinecraftApplet.init(SourceFi le:36)
at net.minecraft.Launcher.replace(Launcher.java:136)
at net.minecraft.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:79)

Am I doing something wrong? I am also having trouble installing Java 6 instead of 7 if that could be my problem. I am a noob as well this is all pretty new to me.

[omniengr]

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! Words cannot express how grateful I am.

[zombiemoat5]

Hi all, I was having this same problem, and no solution would work...

UNTIL... after the part where you copy the new lwjgl-x.x.x files, in <user>/.minecraft/bin/ DELETE the md5s file. that file contains the md5 sums for the jars minecraft downloads. when it launches, if the file is there it checks if the sums are equal to that of the files it has. if they don't, it whines and complains to a point where you feel like killing Notch
if it's not there, it does like spock and thinks "the needs of the many outwit the needs of the few"
and in doing so you're like "you are and will forever be, my friend" (see what i did there? )
hope this helps; ALOT