Cannot determine current directory

Question

I am trying to run a .jar file that was created successfully in Netbeans and I am receiving the following error:

Error occurred during initialization of VM java.lang.Error: Properties init: Could not determine current working directory. at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method) at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1070)

The command that I type to run the .jar is

java -jar "/path to the dist forlder/EOPPrototype.jar" 

My classpath is as follows:

CLASSPATH=/opt/netbeans-7.1.2/ide/modules/ext/mysql-connector-java-5.1.13-     bin.jar:/h/USERS/local/pagola/NetBeansProjects/mylib/dist/mylib.jar:/h/USERS/local/pagola/NetBeansProjects/EOPPrototype/build/classes:. 

What am i missing?

Answer 1

I saw the same error when I was trying to call java -version inside a directory, which I already had deleted from another terminal session. Of course in that case java could not determine the current working directory, simply because it didn't exist.