Pycharm 3.4 won't run on Yosemite

Question

Pycharm 3.4 (fresh install) will not run on Yosemite with Apple JDK 1.6:

Crashed Thread:        32  Java: AWT-EventQueue-0

Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: _CGContextSetAllowsAcceleration
  Referenced from: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_65-b14-462.jdk/Contents/Libraries/libawt.jnilib
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices

There are advices to switch to Oracle JDK 1.7 but since apple 1.6 is recommended I would rather stick with that version.

Answer 1

Edit this file: /Applications/PyCharm\ CE.app/Contents/Info.plist

vi /Applications/PyCharm\ CE.app/Contents/Info.plist

CHANGE:

<key>JVMVersion</key>
      <string>1.6*</string>

TO:

<key>JVMVersion</key>
      <string>1.8*</string>

Is this it

Answer 2

For PyCharm 4 in Mac OS X Yosemite:

• Edit /Applications/[PyCharm app name]/Contents/Info.plist

• Find and Replace -

this

<key>JVMVersion</key>
    <string>1.6*</string>

with

 <key>JVMVersion</key>
      <string>1.8*</string>

Answer 3

It should be enough to download and install a fresh update for Apple Java 1.6. At the moment the latest update was Java for OS X 2014-001.

Answer 4

Install Java 6 from Apple.

From the Jetbrains Blog:

Modifying Info.plist will break the application digital signature and prevent the patch updates. We do not recommend modifying Info.plist file to run under JDK 1.7 or 1.8.

Current JDK 1.7 and 1.8 versions have several critical issues. We can't default to the new JDK version until these issues are resolved