JVM Terminated while installing IBM Installation Manager

Question

I am trying to install IBM Installation Manager in a Cent OS 7 VM. My Installation files are kept at /opt/IM directory The command I issued is

./installc --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -log /opt/mylogfile.xml -acceptLicense

But the installation fails with the following error message

**JVM terminated. Exit code=13
/opt/IM//jre_7.0.8000.20141126_1221/jre/bin/java
-Xms40m
-Xmx1024m
-Xquickstart
-Xgcpolicy:gencon
-jar /opt/IM/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1446.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-launcher /opt/IM/installc
-name Installc
--launcher.library /opt/IM/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64                                                                                                                     _1.1.200.v20120522-1813/eclipse_1502.so
-startup /opt/IM/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1446.jar
--launcher.appendVmargs
-exitdata 1d8003
-toolId isilentInstall
-accessRights admin
-silent input @osgi.install.area/install.xml
-log /opt/mylogfile.xml
-acceptLicense
-vm /opt/IM//jre_7.0.8000.20141126_1221/jre/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx1024m
-Xquickstart
-Xgcpolicy:gencon
-jar /opt/IM/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1446.jar**

My JDK version

Java version "1.7.0_75"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.5.4.2.el7_0-x86_64 u75-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)

Answer 1

Have you checked if the shipped Java runtime has the executable bit? I had the same error and the architectures matched, the problem was the missing executable bit. It's important to apply this on the Java version shipped by IM, not the system wide Java! Your output seems from the system-wide Java, since its an OpenJDK where IM ships IBM JDK:

# ./im/jre_7.0.100025.20180517_1135/jre/bin/java -version
java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxa6470sr10fp25-20180430_01(SR10 FP25))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.7.0 Linux amd64-64 Compressed References 20180420_384915 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - R26_Java726_SR10_20180420_1715_B384915
JIT  - r11_20180420_384915
GC   - R26_Java726_SR10_20180420_1715_B384915_CMPRSS
J9CL - 20010803_384915)
JCL - 20180427_01 based on Oracle jdk7u181-b09

The JVM path could be found in the -vm argument of the output. So in your case, try

/opt/IM/jre_7.0.8000.20141126_1221/jre/bin/java -version

If this doesn't work because of the missing executable bit, add it using chmod:

chmod +x /opt/IM/jre_7.0.8000.20141126_1221/jre/bin/java