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Admincraft•14mo ago•
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nicko

Trying to have a 1.12.2 server with java 8 not working

I am getting this error message. I am trying to set up a stoneblock 2 server and have other servers set up with Java 17 and they work fine. I am getting this error code, I have tried to fix it with other soultions from reddit but have had no luck. Any help would be much apprecited.

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Sky Factory>java -Xmx8192M -Xms8192M -jar forge.jar nogui
A problem occurred running the Server launcher.java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:109)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:580)
at net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.ServerLaunchWrapper.run(ServerLaunchWrapper.java:70)
at net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.ServerLaunchWrapper.main(ServerLaunchWrapper.java:34)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: class jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to class java.net.URLClassLoader (jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader and java.net.URLClassLoader are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.<init>(Launch.java:34)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103)
... 3 more

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Sky Factory>Pause
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