[MCL-16652] Minecraft Launcher fails to launch the game on Gentoo (GNU/Linux)

I've just noticed that the game doesn't manage to start anymore. After reading the logs for some time, I think I figured out where the problem is coming from. On Gentoo, in order to support multiple installations of the JDK, there is a symbolic link system managed by another program (/usr/libexec/eselect-java/run-java-tool.bash). This program cannot be called directly to force users to use symbolic links like /usr/bin/java. I guess the problem is that instead of calling /usr/bin/java directly the launcher tries to execute the target pointed to by the link: for this reason, it fails (as you can read on lines 131 and 132).

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Konrad Nowak 2021-01-28T16:05:18Z

This report is invalid, as this is an account issue and the bug tracker is unable to help you,
as the team do not have access to the appropriate resources.
Please read through this article for guidance as to why you are experiencing
this problem and for potential steps you can perform,
in order to fix the issue.
If the problem still persists after following the given advice, please contact Mojang Support.

[Mod] markderickson 2021-01-28T16:13:37Z

This doesn't seem to be an account issue.

Konrad Nowak 2021-01-28T16:24:00Z

I mean Technical support issue, sry

Ined 2021-01-29T10:09:20Z

Hi Mattéo, thanks for debugging this. We'll look into improving this scenario!

Ined 2021-03-11T14:20:27Z

Hey Mattéo, this issue should have been fixed with the reworkings that we made for how we bundle JRE. You should now be able to start the game without having these issues, as we will us a bundled version of the JRE and not the system's provided. Hope it works out for you!