[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: JVM terminated. Exit code=-1

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Cliff wrote:
> Hi, My eclipse was working perfectly fine until I attempted to load it 
> up this morning with the following error, I'm not sure what I did wrote 
> because I believe the only java related install was one for my new 
> Chrome browser.
>
> Anyway I took a screenshot but it doesn't look like I can paste that up 
> here so I will copy in the message and hopefully one of you lovely 
> people can tell me what's going wrong:
>
> I have my java up to date (1.6.0_10-rc), I have unpacked eclipse twice 
> now and downloaded a new version once, I'm not sure what else to do

Are you specifying to Eclipse which JVM to use, either in eclipse.ini or 
on the command line? It is always best to do so to make sure Eclipse is 
not impacted by some arbitrary Java update or installing another product 
that messes with the system bin path (Oracle's client/driver 
installation is notorious for doing that).
See here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

Also, it seems like the Java version you're talking about is a 
release-candidate (rc); if all else fails I'd suggest going back to a GA 
release to see if that makes a difference.

Finally, when the JVM crashes like this, it usually generates a dump 
file in the directory where you launched it from. On Windows, if you 
have a desktop shortcut to launch Eclipse, it might be right on your 
desktop. That file will have some error code(s) that can be Googled and 
sometimes that will lead to some answers.

Hope this helps,
Eric