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Bug 350996 - [registry] Eclipse Crashing:java.io.UTFDataFormatException: malformed input around byte 7 as first error in log
Summary: [registry] Eclipse Crashing:java.io.UTFDataFormatException: malformed input a...
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 245407
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Components (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: equinox.components-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-07-02 15:04 EDT by deepak.subu CLA
Modified: 2011-07-07 14:11 EDT (History)
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2011-07-02 15:07 EDT, deepak.subu CLA 		no flags Details
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Description deepak.subu CLA 2011-07-02 15:04:21 EDT 
Build Identifier: I20100608-0911

I was working on eclipse a day before this crash and it was working fine. 
I first clicked on the eclipse shortcut on my windows platform and it crashes everytime without exception.
I see a prompt asking me to check to the log in the configuration directory. For each time I run eclipse a new log is generated.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just start eclipse shortcut
2.
3.
Comment 1 deepak.subu CLA 2011-07-02 15:07:06 EDT 
Created attachment 199004 [details]
The log file which forms when eclipse is first started
Comment 2 deepak.subu CLA 2011-07-02 15:09:30 EDT 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Build Identifier: I20100608-0911
> 
> I was working on eclipse a day before this crash and it was working fine. 
> I first clicked on the eclipse shortcut on my windows platform and it crashes
> everytime without exception.
> I see a prompt asking me to check to the log in the configuration directory.
> For each time I run eclipse a new log is generated.
> 
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Just start eclipse shortcut
> 2.
> 3.

That doesnt sound very sensible. 
1. Start eclipse
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2011-07-05 02:54:05 EDT 
- Did you maybe change the VM or the encoding? Or even copy the workspace from another machine?

- Does it work if you use a new workspace?

See also bug 245407.
Comment 4 Oleg Besedin CLA 2011-07-07 14:11:43 EDT 
Indeed, this looks like another instance of the bug 245407.

As a workaround, "-clean" runtime argument will clear the cache.

Could you look through the bug 245407 comment 1 and see if anything in that list applies?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 245407 ***