h2o failed to connect when called from R: Java version missmatch

Question

h2o

was working before on my laptop, but I didn't use it for a while
(and have installed new packages and updated things in the meantime). Yesterday I tried using it, but it didn't work. I erased the

R

h2o

packaged and I've reinstalled

h2o

from scratch with

install.packages("h2o")

I tried running

h2o

with

h2o.init()

but it gives me this error

java version "9"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9+181)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9+181, mixed mode)



Starting H2O JVM and connecting: ............................................................ 

[1] "localhost"

[1] 54321

[1] TRUE

[1] -1

[1] "Failed to connect to localhost port 54321: Connection refused"

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 54321: Connection refused

[1] 7

Error in h2o.init() : H2O failed to start, stopping execution.

When I look at the error log it shows

Only Java 1.6-1.8 supported, version is 9

I tried to look for more info and I think the error is triggered by this code on line 1836:

if (version != null && !(version.startsWith("1.6") || version.startsWith("1.7") || version.startsWith("1.8"))) {

  System.err.println("Only Java 1.6-1.8 supported, version is " + version);

  return true;

So it seems

h2o

is checking for a version that starts with 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 but my version for some reason starts with 9!
However, on the terminal,

java -version

gives

openjdk version "1.8.0_121"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.20.0.5-macosx) (build 1.8.0_121-b15)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Zulu 8.20.0.5-macosx) (build 25.121-b15, mixed mode)

and

which java

gives

/Users/myusername/anaconda3/bin/java

------------ EDIT -------

More info:

/usr/libexec/java_home -V

gives

Matching Java Virtual Machines (4):

    9, x86_64:  "Java SE 9" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home

    1.8.0_144, x86_64:  "Java SE 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_144.jdk/Contents/Home

    1.8.0_51, x86_64:   "Java SE 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home

    1.8.0_25, x86_64:   "Java SE 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home

Which explains the

9

that

h2o

is seeing. I find it weird that it expects

1.x.0

but the version is just

9

. In any case, it seems I need to point that

h2o.init()

command to the

1.8

java, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

I usually use

brew

to install most things, but I never use

java

so I don't know anything about the versions.

Thanks and best!

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Answer 1

The error you reported says:

Only Java 1.6-1.8 supported, version is 9

Seems like you have Java 9 installed, which is not yet supported by H2O. Use a compatible version of Java and that will fix the error.

If you can't or don't want to uninstall Java 9, then you'll need to tell H2O which Java you'd like to use by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable. First, get the location of Java 1.8 by executing the following in a shell:

/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8

On my mac, it shows me this:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

You can check if R can see your JAVA_HOME variable by running the following command: Sys.getenv("JAVA_HOME").

If that's blank (and possibly will be if you're using RStudio), then will have to do a bit more work to get R to see the JAVA_HOME variable. You can edit the ~/.Renviron file to add JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home or whatever that location is on your machine. Then restart RStudio and it should work.

h2o failed to connect when called from R: Java version missmatch

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