OH3 not starting after update (code=exited, status=2)

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Hi All,
I am very longtime Domotica Enthusiasts and therfore enthusiastic OH2.5 user.I just started with OH3. First of all, Its looks great.
I installed OH3 on a new hyper-V VM with the latest Debian and used the manual openhabian installation. I copied al the config files (about 120 Things, 800 items) from the OH2.5 and after some configuration adjustments for the semantic model. Everything was working fine and I started to build pages.
I always let openhabian-config do the updates but it is giving error now . *(There was an error or interruption during the execution of: │ “02 | Upgrade System” ).
I did some research, and

Sudo systemctl status openhab

give me a Process: 31341 ExecStart=/usr/share/openhab/runtime/bin/karaf ${OPENHAB_STARTMODE} (code=exited, status=2)
Main PID: 31341 (code=exited, status=2)

I have done I new clean install on a separate VM but have the same Issue.
Does somebody have an Idea where to look.
Thanks, (OH25 is still running fine)
Hans

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Hi Hans, welcome to the community forum!

There may be more of a hint using the command:

sudo journalctl -u openhab -b

There should be some indicators near the bottom of the file, can you see anything that might suggest what’s wrong?

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Hi Ben,
Thanks for the response.
I found this in the journalctl:

Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian systemd[1]: Started openHAB - empowering the smart home.
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian karaf[26382]: /usr/share/openhab/runtime/bin/karaf: 247: [: Illegal number:
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian karaf[26382]: /usr/share/openhab/runtime/bin/karaf: 247: [: Illegal number:
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian karaf[26382]: /usr/share/openhab/runtime/bin/karaf: 95: [: Illegal number:
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian karaf[26382]: /usr/share/openhab/runtime/bin/karaf: 301: [: Illegal number:
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian karaf[26382]: /usr/share/openhab/runtime/bin/karaf: 337: exec: /usr/bin/java: Exec format error
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian systemd[1]: openhab.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Jan 28 22:40:11 openhabian systemd[1]: openhab.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

On a other topic i found it has something to do with java.

Java -version

gives an error, I will look into that tomorrow, thanks.

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I found the solution, it turned out to be a wrong java version, 32 bit instead of 64. How this happened is not clear to me.

sudo update-alternatives --config jav

I needed : /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java

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