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eclipse stopped working now wont start (exit code=1) [message #901609]

Mon, 13 August 2012 16:18

James R

Messages: 2
Registered: August 2012

Junior Member

I recently installed eclipse (specifically: eclipse-java-juno-win32). Everything was working good and fine... started a couple of projects for Android. However yesterday while I was working with eclipse, it suddenly started acting strange. It no longer was listing 'resources' in the autocomplete list. So I thought I'd just restart eclipse. But after that it no longer would start (no error msg, just shot back to windows). So I restarted the computer (which said that eclipse was still running, it didn't seem to close from the first time).
After the restart I kept getting the error: 'Unable to start java virtual machine' when I would try to startup Eclipse. So after googling I added the 'vm' line to the ini file to point at the java install dir. Then I got the nice 'Java was started but returned exit code=1'. I've now tried reinstalling Java (JDK and JRE), but to no avail. I did get eclipse to start-up once since then by running from the command line:
java -jar "c:\program files\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar".

However it ran for a bit and then crashed on a memmory error, and now even that won't start.

It should be noted that I did not change any settings, install/update any software before the original 'Eclipse' crash. Not sure how a program breaks itself like that...

Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated.