"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: begin 0, end -1, length 8" Error

[girlbotter 0]

So i'm getting this logged to my terminal when I try to execute the jar. I use ubuntu 17.04 and it was working fine before until I installed openjdk-9 through the package manager. I deleted all of the openjdk packages and reinstalled each one by one and tried executing each and I always get this error. I tried the oraclejdk-9 as well with no avail. I've also tried to deleted all of the dot files as well before re-installing. Nothing works. Here is the full stack trace. Thanks in advance.

 

35 [12:38:48] ~$ java -jar DBLauncher.jar 

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: begin 0, end -1, length 8

at java.base/java.lang.String.checkBoundsBeginEnd(String.java:3123)

at java.base/java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1911)

at org.dreambot.launcher.LauncherMethods.getJavaVersion(LauncherMethods.java:94)

at org.dreambot.ui.DreamLauncherUI.initComponents(DreamLauncherUI.java:66)

at org.dreambot.ui.DreamLauncherUI.<init>(DreamLauncherUI.java:52)

at org.dreambot.launcher.DreamLauncher.generateLauncherUI(DreamLauncher.java:26)

at org.dreambot.launcher.DreamLauncher.main(DreamLauncher.java:17)

 

[Ahmet82 62]

ask bonbom he helped me when i tried running db on my VPS

[Articron 746]

Don't download java 9! go for JDK 8

 

Edit: Dreambot is compiled with java 8

[bonbom1 19]

I would also like to add that DreamBot doesn't really work with OpenJDK.

[girlbotter 0]

Dunno why this didn't work last night but I reinstalled openJDK8 and it seems to be alright. But yeah I think ill switch to oraclejdk8 per your advice. Thanks all.