Bug 9894

Summary:	Eclipse does not start because of Null Pointer Exception
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sven Schuetz <nuke>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P1
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Sven Schuetz

2002-02-15 07:38:01 EST

Starting eclipse.exe ended with showing the splash screen and then returned to 
windows.
I tried to manually start the Main class from startup.jar and received the 
following error message:
Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.searchForBoot(Main.java:309)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.getBootPath(Main.java:260)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.getBootLoader(Main.java:188)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:148)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:502)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:362)

A search in the newsgroups resulted in a hint, to move eclipse to a folder 
which does not contain blanks (i had eclipse in c:\program files) and it solved 
the problem.
The message in the newsgroup stated (btw, it addressed the WSAD) that the bug 
has long been removed, but I am using the latest stable build (Jan 25th) and it 
was obviously not removed.

If the bug is known/removed - sorry for your wasted time ;)

Bye, Sven

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2002-02-15 10:47:03 EST

Fixed in build 2002-01-29. Please re-open if you are still having problems in 
the latest builds.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3106 ***