Why do I get "java quit unexpectedly" while installing R2016b on a Mac running macOS Sierra?

I have the latest version of Java.

I am running macOS Sierra version 10.12.3.

I have the following products:

MATLAB 9.1,
Simulink 8.8,
Control System Toolbox 10.1,
DSP System Toolbox 9.3,
Signal Processing Toolbox 7.3,
Simscape 4.1,
Simscape Electronics 2.10,
Simscape Power Systems 6.6,
Simulink Control Design 4.4,
Stateflow 8.8,
Symbolic Math Toolbox 7.1,
System Identification Toolbox 9.5.

I get the error even when I attempt to install MATLAB only.

The error report:

Process:               java [86073]
Path:                  /tmp/*/java
Identifier:            com.mathworks.installer
Version:               1.0 (1.0)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [85855]
Responsible:           java [86073]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2017-02-12 09:53:14.584 -1000
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.3 (16D32)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        23BAF84E-7BA6-C264-BF96-A05AAF93FA68

Time Awake Since Boot: 56000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        36  Java: SwingWorker-pool-5-thread-6

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000010c3fc000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

VM Regions Near 0x10c3fc000:
    MALLOC guard page      000000010c3fb000-000000010c3fc000 [    4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL  
--> VM_ALLOCATE            000000010c3fc000-000000010c3fd000 [    4K] r--/rwx SM=PRV  
    shared memory          000000010c3fd000-000000010c3fe000 [    4K] r--/rw- SM=SHM  

Application Specific Information:
terminating with uncaught exception of type us::BadAnyCastException: Failed to convert between const Any types
abort() called

[Walter Roberson]

You should contact Mathworks for free installation support.

Answer 1

[Saurabh Gupta]

If your macOS is installed on a VM, the following link may be relevant to the issue and could help you resolve it.

https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-22830

Otherwise, as Walter mentioned, you should consider contacting MathWorks Installation Support for help in troubleshooting the issue.

[McBill]

Thank you Sara. But I am not running in a VM.

[Walter Roberson]

Ah, that was a Java issue for OS-X 10.8, which was Mountain Lion. I never bothered to set up a VM for an OS-X that old -- I think that was the first OS-X that you could legally run in a VM without a special Server license.