sbt fails with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/Serializable

steps

On a Mac OSX 10.14.6, I run

$ brew install openjdk
$ brew install sbt
$ sbt sbtVersion

problem

This is the output:

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/Serializable
	at sbt.internal.ClassLoaderWarmup$.warmup(XMainConfiguration.scala:31)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:567)
	at sbt.internal.XMainConfiguration.run(XMainConfiguration.scala:82)
	at sbt.xMain.run(Main.scala:46)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.$anonfun$run$1(Launch.scala:149)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.withContextLoader(Launch.scala:176)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.run(Launch.scala:149)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.$anonfun$apply$1(Launch.scala:44)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.launch(Launch.scala:159)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.apply(Launch.scala:44)
	at xsbt.boot.Launch$.apply(Launch.scala:21)
	at xsbt.boot.Boot$.runImpl(Boot.scala:78)
	at xsbt.boot.Boot$.run(Boot.scala:73)
	at xsbt.boot.Boot$.main(Boot.scala:21)
	at xsbt.boot.Boot.main(Boot.scala)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: scala.Serializable
	at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:436)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:588)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521)
	... 18 more
[error] [launcher] error during sbt launcher: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/Serializable

expectation

I was hoping for something like

sbt version 1.5.4

notes

Is it some CLASSPATH issue?

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

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eed3si9ncommented, Jul 10, 2021

I think I know what’s happening.

I messed up util-interface during 1.4.x and accidentally added Scala dependency to it. For sbt 1.4.0, 1.4.1, and 1.4.2, Scala 2.13 is added. If you use sbt 1.4.3 and onwards, it should be ok.

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eed3si9ncommented, Jul 11, 2021

Great. I added a workaround to launcher, so hopefully launcher 1.5.5 will be able to launch sbt 1.4.0 as well, even though staying on the latest is usually recommended.

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