[MC-136936] won't start in offline mode

The following error message is displayed:

OpenJDK 64-bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release
Error: Could not find or load main class net.minecraft.client.main.Main

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MCL-9704 Legacy: 1.13 doesnt launch when offline Resolved

Comments 4

[Bot] Arisa 2018-09-17T22:30:48Z

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Alex Mehne 2018-09-17T22:48:14Z

There is no crash report for the date in the folder (several older crash reports are present).

Asteraoth 2018-09-17T23:02:40Z

The environment is only supposed to contain PC details.

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Alex Mehne 2018-09-18T01:24:02Z

ah. It is exactly as MCMCL-9704 describes. wish that result would've shown up when I searched earlier