I though I was running into this as well, but it only took the game long to start up.
What "won't start" meant in this case was that the window titled "Minecraft 13w38a" appeared, but seemed frozen at mojang splash screen - no menu. The log looked similar for me as well.
As I said, letting the game unfreeze was all that was required, but it still took ~7 minutes to start up properly and that much time to shut down as well - this could be a problem on its own.
Some system info:
OS: Fedora 17, 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64
Java:
java version "1.7.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_11-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)
When shutting down, the game hanged at this:
Client>
Client> Starting up SoundSystem...
Client> Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
Client> (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
Client> OpenAL initialized.
Client>
Client> 2013-09-20 01:24:20 [CLIENT] [INFO] Stopping!
and then proclaimed it ended with no troubles:
Client> 2013-09-20 01:24:20 [CLIENT] [INFO] Stopping!
Client>
Client> SoundSystem shutting down...
Client> Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com
Client>
Sep 20, 2013 1:31:32 AM net.minecraft.launcher.process.ProcessMonitorThread run
SEVERE: null
java.io.IOException: Stream closed
at java.io.BufferedReader.ensureOpen(BufferedReader.java:115)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:310)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:382)
at net.minecraft.launcher.process.ProcessMonitorThread.run(ProcessMonitorThread.java:26)
Game ended with no troubles detected (exit code 0)
Deleting /home/rjanik/.minecraft/versions/13w38a/13w38a-natives-20858729249061
Following visibility rule and exiting launcher as the game has ended
If you want me to attach the log or run the game with some special options, let me know.
Richard Janik
Hello,
I though I was running into this as well, but it only took the game long to start up.
What "won't start" meant in this case was that the window titled "Minecraft 13w38a" appeared, but seemed frozen at mojang splash screen - no menu. The log looked similar for me as well.
As I said, letting the game unfreeze was all that was required, but it still took ~7 minutes to start up properly and that much time to shut down as well - this could be a problem on its own.
Some system info:
When shutting down, the game hanged at this:
and then proclaimed it ended with no troubles:
If you want me to attach the log or run the game with some special options, let me know.