Installing JRE 1.1.8_003 on a newly installed Windows NT 4.0 system, and invoking JRE from the command prompt, gives the following error:
C:\>jre -v
Could not locate Java runtime

The above problem does not happen when invoking JRE 1.1.8_002 (on a different
newly installed Windows NT system). Service Pack 5 is loaded on both these
Windows NT 4.0 systems.

This problem might have been introduced in Win32 Production JDK 1.1.8_003.

The binaries 'jre' & 'jrew' are installed in the following locations
(as part of the default Win32 prodcution JDK 1.1.8_003 installation):
C:\Program Files\Javasoft\JRE\1.1\bin
C:\WINNT
By removing/renaming 'jre' in C:\WINNT and adding
'C:\Program Files\Javasoft\JRE\1.1\bin' to the path, helps fix this problem. Copying 'jre' from 'C:\Program Files\Javasoft\JRE\1.1\bin' onto C:\WINNT,
still gives the same error. This tells us that the binary 'jre' is location
dependant (under JRE 1.1.8_003).



Rose.Ng@eng 2000-04-06
CTE patch team will take over the bug since the root cause has been identified.