Bug 9894 - Eclipse does not start because of Null Pointer Exception
Summary: Eclipse does not start because of Null Pointer Exception
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 3106
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Resources (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P1 blocker (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: DJ Houghton CLA
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Reported: 2002-02-15 07:38 EST by Sven Schuetz CLA
Modified: 2002-02-15 10:47 EST (History)
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Description Sven Schuetz CLA 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 CLA 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 ***