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I tried to remove all javas (I had multiple versions), then I installed oracle 11.6 jdk using binary intaller, but the problem is still the same.
$ ls -lah /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 64B Mar 25 21:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128B Sep 21 2018 ..
$ java --version
No Java runtime present, requesting install.
# Installed it here
$ java --version
java 11.0.6 2020-01-14 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.6+8-LTS)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.6+8-LTS, mixed mode)
$ ls -lah /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96B Mar 25 21:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128B Mar 25 21:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96B Mar 25 21:12 jdk-11.0.6.jdk
$ /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher
2020-03-25 21:16:35.383 launcher[1464:75212] Claimed it found a path: /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher (/Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher) 4096
https://launchermeta.mojang.com/v1/products/launcher/022631aeac4a9addbce8e0503dce662152dc198d/mac-os.json
SaveToBuffer failedAny more advice?
I was able to work around the problem by adding
into
/etc/hosts. Ping and all other services are able to do dns lookups correctly, so not sure why the Minecraft launcher can't.How I found the workaround:
With the help of
dtrusstool, I was able to find thelauncher_log.txt(pity that noone pointed me to it - it's in/Users/[your_username]/Library/Application Support/minecraft/launcher_log.txt.In the
I noticed
not sure why it does not work, as I was able to happily ping the address. I added the address to my
/etc/hosts. After that the launcher tried to download bunch of files and crashed later. New log filenativeUpdaterLog.txtappeared in the same dir and according to it it failed to lookup thelauncher.mojang.com. So I added that to/etc/hostsas well. After that the launcher started succesfully into login screen. I tried to remove the hosts entries then and it was still starting (but per log it was still failing to resolve the names). Only when I removed the/Users/[your_username]/Library/Application Support/minecraftit was failing again.