Error: spawn java ENOENT thrown

[doug-wade]

I'm trying to start local-dynamo in a gulp task, and I'm getting this error:

Error: spawn java ENOENT
  at exports._errnoException (util.js:837:11)
  at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
  at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
  at doNTCallback2 (node.js:429:9)
  at process._tickCallback (node.js:343:17)
  at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:477:11)
  at startup (node.js:117:18)
  at node.js:951:3

The gulp task looks like:

gulp.task('launch-dev-db', function() {
  var localDynamo = require('local-dynamo');
  localDynamo.launch(paths.db, 3456);
});

I logged out the PATH that was being supplied to child_process.spawn, and it has /usr/bin/ included, which is where java is:

» file $(which java)
/usr/bin/java: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/java'

I'm on node 4.0.0 and Ubuntu 14.04.

[gswalden]

This happened to me, but once I created the data directory (/database/dir in the docs) the error went away.