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Build Identifier: I have been using a working version of Eclipse 3.3.1.1 for two or three years. Recently, I tried to install Eclipse on a new computer, and on an instance at Amazon Web Services. I tried to install several versions of eclipse, but encountered the same problem. Startup fails. The error message I get is (some version of) the following: Java was started but returned exit code=13 C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin\javaw.exe -Xms40m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -jar C:\Users\staples\Downloads\eclipse-jee-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.1.R36x_v20101122_1400.jar -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -showsplash -launcher C:\Users\staples\Downloads\eclipse-jee-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64\eclipse\eclipse.exe -name Eclipse --launcher.library C:\Users\staples\Downloads\eclipse-jee-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.2.R36x_v20101222\eclipse_1312.dll -startup C:\Users\staples\Downloads\eclipse-jee-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.1.R36x_v20101122_1400.jar -exitdata a80_78 -vm C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin\javaw.exe -vmargs -Xms40m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -jar C:\Users\staples\Downloads\eclipse-jee-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.1.R36x_v201011122_1400.jar Now, the home page advises newcomers to read http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini to solve problems a bit like this. I'm sorry, but that's not much help. It begins "by default, eclipse.ini contains something like..." and then it lists a stream of code quite different from what is in the downloads. I tried cutting and pasting the code from that article into my eclipse.ini, substituting the url for my own JVM. Nothing works. When I cut-and-paste the text into new instances of Eclipse from my version of Eclipse that is working, that doesn't help either. Unfortunately the article doesn't explain what the text in eclipse.ini *means.* I am mystified as to why my old instance of Eclipse works and the new ones don't, no matter what I do, including when I apparently do exactly the same thing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download Eclipse onto my machine 2. Try to alter Eclipse.ini to make Eclipse find the JVM 3. Errors occur, usually this exit code=13 error
It looks like you downloaded the 64 bit version of Eclipse. If so, make sure you also have a 64 bit JRE installed.
OK, that fixed it. I had seen on various websites the advice that the problem might be that I had the wrong JRE installed, but I thought it meant I needed Java 5 or Java 6 or something, that new versions of Eclipse weren't compatible with old versions of Java. But they said they were. I didn't think of the 32-bit/64-bit problem. Thanks a lot!
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Created attachment 251124 [details] Shows the error message I receive while trying to open Eclipse When I open Eclipse this error message shows up and won't let me open Eclipse. I updated my Java but it still isn't working.
. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221969 ***
