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MC-134973

Fullscreen "Black Screen of Death"

AFFECTS ALL VERSIONS
Whenever I launch Minecraft, any version, I get a flash of the Minecraft splash screen then it goes black.  My friend pressed F11 and I told him not to but he did anyway.  Now my Minecraft installation is stuck in fullscreen.  I have uninstalled as through Settings and Control Panel then reinstalled several times.  Nothing changed as I tried all of the versions again, didn't crash on F3 + C command. Then I uninstalled it and searched my C: drive for any remnants of Minecraft and deleted them, then reinstalling Minecraft.  Still stuck in fullscreen mode and it is black, did F3 + C and it didn't crash. When I try to close Minecraft in Task Manager, all I get is a "(Not Responding)" extension of the name. When Windows pops up to say it's not responding, I click the end button. It doesn't end the task. As far as I can tell, the only option to close Minecraft is to restart my computer because Windows Command Prompt, Windows Powershell, Git Bash, and Git CMD (different console terminal programs I have) all don't open on the top of the window. Any help is appreciated!

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Please do not mark unreleased versions as affected.
You don't have access to them yet.

oh, so very helpful, Jira bot. VEEEEEERY helpful.

Please add the files [.minecraft/launcher_log.txt|http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/guides/finding-minecraft-data-folder/] and .minecraft/latest.log to this ticket.

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I can't access those files if my computer has to restart to close Minecraft.

Because then that crashes the launcher and doesn't save the log, right?

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Well this is weird.  When I try to do it again, the game crashes after a series of Java warnings.

 

 Warning: No leading - on line 1 of `C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_51\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
 Warning: Missing VM type on line 1 of `C:\Program Files(x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_51\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
 Warning: No leading - on line 2 of `C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_51\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
 Warning: Missing VM type on line 2 of `C:\Program Files(x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_51\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
 Warning: No leading - on line 3 of `C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_51\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
 Warning: Missing VM type on line 3 of `C:\Program Files(x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_51\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
 Error: no known VMs. (check for corrupt jvm.cfg file)

Minecraft Launcher

GAME CRASH

An unexpected issue occurred and the game has crashed. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

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It looks like the launcher's integrated Java installation isn't as good as it's expected to be.  Should I start another report?

That's not "isn't as good as expected", there is something heavily broken.
Did you uninstall and reinstall Minecraft yet?
Also you might try to install Oracle's Java (take care to download the 64bit version) and switch over to this in the Launcher options.

Just noticed you sent that @kumasasa
Installed x86-64 version because that's my computer's architecture

ERROR :(

Unable to locate the Java runtime.

Error details: The system cannot find the file specified
Filename on disk: javaw.exe
Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath\javaw.exe
Exists: file

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RESET JAVA PATH

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the java path is right ummm..

For help with Java runtime see MCL-5638. Please take a look at the Moderator’s Note on that ticket to see solutions to your issue.

Please check if that's still an issue for you in the latest version of Minecraft.

ogx

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Unconfirmed

fullscreen

Minecraft 1.13, Minecraft 18w30b

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