Apache Felix won't start

Question

I'm trying to start Apache Felix (java -jar felix.jar) from the Windows 7 cmd, but I get nothing. The cursor simply jumps to the next line which then remains blank and blinking forever. I don't get the Apache Felix success message, ie:

Welcome to Felix
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-> ps

What could I be missing?

Answer 1

When I start from the directory of the felix distribution it works for me. I got a similar behaviour like you when I started directly from the bin directory as then the launcher did not find the config.properties.

It might also be about the java version. I used Java 8.