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I've been getting this for a while now. Every time I start eclipse on my mac I get the following stack trace in the log. Sometimes twice. Not sure what's going on. Java seems to launch ok etc. !ENTRY org.eclipse.jdt.launching 4 4 2010-12-10 09:12:02.669 !MESSAGE Unable to retrieve system properties !STACK 1 org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Unable to retrieve system properties at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.AbstractVMInstall.abort(AbstractVMInstall.java:495) at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.AbstractVMInstall.evaluateSystemProperties(AbstractVMInstall.java:445) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.isFoundation1_0(ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.java:142) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.analyze(ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.java:90) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.Analyzer.analyze(Analyzer.java:40) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.EnvironmentsManager.analyze(EnvironmentsManager.java:334) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.EnvironmentsManager.vmAdded(EnvironmentsManager.java:373) at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.fireVMAdded(JavaRuntime.java:2319) at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.initializeVMs(JavaRuntime.java:2689) at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.getVMInstallTypes(JavaRuntime.java:526) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.EnvironmentsManager.initializeCompatibilities(EnvironmentsManager.java:233) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.ExecutionEnvironment.init(ExecutionEnvironment.java:178) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.environments.ExecutionEnvironment.getDefaultVM(ExecutionEnvironment.java:215) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.JREContainerInitializer.resolveVM(JREContainerInitializer.java:171) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.JREContainerInitializer.resolveVM(JREContainerInitializer.java:138) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.JREContainerInitializer.initialize(JREContainerInitializer.java:57) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelManager.initializeContainer(JavaModelManager.java:2810) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelManager.getClasspathContainer(JavaModelManager.java:1873) at org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore.getClasspathContainer(JavaCore.java:2741) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.resolveClasspath(JavaProject.java:2652) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.resolveClasspath(JavaProject.java:2790) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.getResolvedClasspath(JavaProject.java:1922) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.buildStructure(JavaProject.java:441) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.Openable.generateInfos(Openable.java:258) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaElement.openWhenClosed(JavaElement.java:515) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaElement.getElementInfo(JavaElement.java:252) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaElement.getElementInfo(JavaElement.java:238) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.getJavaProjectElementInfo(JavaProject.java:1604) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.newNameLookup(JavaProject.java:2289) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.SearchableEnvironment.<init>(SearchableEnvironment.java:57) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.SearchableEnvironment.<init>(SearchableEnvironment.java:64) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CancelableNameEnvironment.<init>(CancelableNameEnvironment.java:26) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CompilationUnitProblemFinder.process(CompilationUnitProblemFinder.java:175) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CompilationUnitProblemFinder.process(CompilationUnitProblemFinder.java:268) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.makeConsistent(ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.java:190) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.executeOperation(ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.java:89) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelOperation.run(JavaModelOperation.java:728) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelOperation.runOperation(JavaModelOperation.java:788) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CompilationUnit.reconcile(CompilationUnit.java:1244) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy.reconcile(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:126) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy.access$0(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:108) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy$1.run(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:89) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy.reconcile(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:87) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy.initialReconcile(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:178) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.CompositeReconcilingStrategy.initialReconcile(CompositeReconcilingStrategy.java:114) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.JavaCompositeReconcilingStrategy.initialReconcile(JavaCompositeReconcilingStrategy.java:133) at org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.MonoReconciler.initialProcess(MonoReconciler.java:105) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.JavaReconciler.initialProcess(JavaReconciler.java:398) at org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.AbstractReconciler$BackgroundThread.run(AbstractReconciler.java:173)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 262542 ***