Eclipse. JVM Terminated -1
07/08/2008
I installed Eclipse Europa (3.3) and Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) but could start none of them. Starting eclipse fails with
I eventually found a fix, that requires to change the eclipse.ini file (I replace « new lines » with « spaces »)
Hope this helps!
Othere suggestions include:
- changing the vmargs parameters (also suggested by bobobobo) and in particular changing the maximum heap size1
- completedly blank out the eclipse.ini file (which obviously fixes the incorrect new line character)
- reinstall a 64 bit version of Java (in case you are on a 64 bit OS)
- fixing the arguments after vmargs. This was obviously not the problem with my fresh installation, ubt maybe it can help other people.
- I suspect this reformats the new lines as well, depending on the editor used [↩]
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Actually, I recommend getting the right version of Eclipse — 64bit — if you are on Vista 64 and getting these JVM Terminated -1 errors.
I have updated my post to make this more clear.
Cheers!
wicked-nasty. i’ll try some of these ideas next time my eclipse breaks down
Thanks for pointing the mistake, filsa. I read (too) quickly your post (my environment was 32 bit, so I knew your solution would not help me).
I have corrected the post.
Hey, thank you, that line breaks were exactly the problem, which made my Eclipse don’t start! Now it works
Thank you very much.
This can help me a lot.
What’s wrong. I had to do yet again the same thing for Eclipse Galileo (3.5)
Just couldn’t believe my eyes. I had the same problem with Galileo, 32-bit OS, 32-bit JDK. Everything was working great until one day when eclipse just wouldn’t start anymore, the same error message. I tried to reinstall JDK, but it has nothing to do with it.
Replacing new lines with spaces in eclipse.ini did the trick. Thanks a lot!