The bug seems to be there all along in hopper (including b13 and b14).
It was working fine with Merlin FCS and hence it's a regression.

The bug is reproduceable on Sparc 7, 8, 9 and IA Solaris 8

Steps to reproduce:

1. login to your sparc machine using root id.
2. open a terminal and set path to the hopper build (say b14)
3. cd <your home directory not rootid's home dir>. i.e. cd /home/<your dir>
4. check java -version. This works fine.
5. cd <to any of the subdir from your home dir> i.e. cd /home/<your dir>/<subdir>
6. check java -version
7. This produces the following error message:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.Error: Properties init: Could not determine current working directory.

No application could be launched with java on any of the subfolders from the user's home directory


This is also reproduceable by SQE-tools group member (Surendra Prasad)

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