Leiningen hangs instead of complaining about not finding JAVA_HOME

[spiralnegative]

Initial debugging steps
Before creating a report, especially around exceptions being thrown when running Leiningen, please check if the error still occurs after:

• Updating to using the latest released version of Leiningen (lein upgrade).
• Moving your ~/.lein/profiles.clj (if present) out of the way. This contains third-party dependencies and plugins that can cause problems inside Leiningen.
• Updating any old versions of plugins in your project.clj, especially if the problem is with a plugin not working. Old versions of plugins like nREPL and CIDER (as well as others) can cause problems with newer versions of Leiningen.
• (If you are using Java 9 or newer), updating your dependencies to their most recent versions. Recent JDK's have introduced changes which can break some Clojure libraries.

Describe the bug
When I run any lein command (e.g. lein migrate) my terminal just hangs and no output is produced. After some debugging I found out that JAVA_HOME in my .zshrc was pointing to the wrong directory. Fixing the directory also fixed my problem.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to your .bashrc/.zshrc/etc and change the JAVA_HOME directory to something else
2. Check lein version - it should output the correct Java, e.g. Leiningen 2.11.2 on Java 1.8.0_401 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM in my case
3. Run any lein command - e.g. lein test

Actual behavior
Any lein command produces no output and just hangs for minutes.

Expected behavior
lein commands to output a message about wrong Java directory

Link to sample project
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Logs
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Environment

• Leiningen Version: Leiningen 2.11.2 on Java 1.8.0_401 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
• Leiningen installation method: Homebrew
• JDK Version:

java version "1.8.0_401" 
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_401-b10)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.401-b10, mixed mode)

• OS: MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1 (Apple M3 Pro chip)

Additional context
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[technomancy]

I can't reproduce this running from source or installed from apt-get. Is it possible this is a distro-specific issue with the homebrew packaging?