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When you start Eclipse for the first time, it asks you the path for the workspace. Now, normal path should be C:\Users\USERNAME\Workspace but, if I try to set %USERPROFILE%\Workspace it doesn't work, it creates a folder called %USERPROFILE%\Workspace under the Eclipse folder.
So the question is: how to use windows environment variables to specify workspace path? Thank you.
P.S: I know that Eclipse has got customizable environment variables but I didn't try them and I want to use them neither.
You can run eclipse.exe -data %USERPROFILES%\myCustomWorkspaceDir to have the workspace in your wanted sub directory. In this case, you will not even get the dialog asking for the workspace.
There are still more runtime options for Eclipse.
Can anyone help me with this error:
java was started but returned exit code = -805306369
C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe
-jar C:\Program Files\Java\eclipse-jee-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.11.1.R36x_v20101122_1400.jar
Just had this issue, for me it was a corrupted workspace osgi cache. The solution was to run eclipse with the -clean parameter as
eclipse.exe -clean
After some time, eclipse required to clean up, the workspace selection dialog popped up and I could start eclipse normally again.
The -clean parameter is documented in the eclipse help
My problem was a corrupted workspace the solution was from Rob's link:
http://spacetech.dk/eclipse-failed-java-was-started-but-returned-exit-code-805306369.html
I started getting the same error "exit code = -805306369" just out of no where.
Eventually I looked at the Eclipse logs at the <workspace_directory>/.metadata/.log and realized that my Source Control plugin (Perforce in my case) was unable to connect and the eclipse was stuck.
This was because my eclipse was piggy back(depending) on the client connection that I have with my Perforce windows client and my Perforce client was not connected to the server. I connected my Perforce client and the eclipse started working normal.
this happens when mostly workspace is corrupted..... cooler solution is just to switch the workspace to safer location(new location).... and just import the project from previous workspace... princess can still be saved....
For me , Just change your Workspace to another one
I got this error, when workspace already setted up. Since the java virtual machine cannot be created. try command: java -version
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
I restarted my machine, and it solved my problem.
One of the class file in my project was corrupted. The name of a class file was too long and I was not able to delete or rename it, so I rename the folder containing it and then I was able to delete the project and that solved my problem.
Now i know that my workspace was corrupted, it solved my problem.
Go to your workspace and rename it.
Start your eclipse and by default it will create a workspace.
Go to File -> Switch Workspace, choose your original workspace.
I wasn't able to disable "Automatically find new updates and notify me." The option was not there on the Install/Updates page. Perhaps eclipse workbench has changed since that answer was written.
However, running eclipse with the -clean option in my old workspace did the trick for me. The way to do that in windows is to first find the directory where eclipse.exe lives. You can go to the start menu and in the "search menus and files" bar, type eclipse. You should see the purple globe icon pop up under "Programs." Hover your mouse over it and it will tell you the directory it exists in.
Then... open "computer" or some other window from the start menu and from there navigate to the window where eclipse is. Click your mouse in the bar at the top where the directory is displayed (somewhere not on the text). That directory will highlight. Now type cmd. A black command window will open and you will be in the directory where eclipse is. At the command prompt (drum roll) type eclipse.exe -clean
eclipse will start. Make sure it is asking to go to your corrupted workspace and click OK.
Wait for it and soon you will know if your workspace has been uncorrupted. Yay!
“java was started but returned exit code = -805306369” caused by Eclipse´s currupted workspace, I solved my problem with this 4 steps:
1) claose the eclipse.
2) Kill the adb from task manager.
3) Start your eclipse and by default it will create a workspace or start with new workspace.
4) Go to File -> Switch Workspace, choose your original workspace.
In my case, it is a work laptop, so pretty secure SOE
64 bit Win 7.
Unzipped Eclipse MARS onto a folder on "C" drive
Install failed consistently with Java error code -805306369
Created a separate folder on 'C' drive for workspace, granted
everyone full-control and that fixed it!!
I got same issue when opening files using shortcut - Ctrl+Shift+R.
I got it resolved by disabling "Automatic Updates".
Steps to disable automatic update in eclipse (helios): Windows >> Preference >> Install/Update >> Automatic Updates. Disable "Automatically find new updates and notify me".
How I managed to get mine working. I used a combination of the solutions above. It works for me.
Step 1: Change your workspace to some other names e.g. change it from workspace to workspace1.
Step 2: Access your eclipse and stop automatic updates (provided that you could access after changing your workspace)
Step 3: Exit your eclipse with workspace1
Step 4: Start your eclipse with former workspace by entering eclipse.exe -clean (if you are using others then use e.g. MuleStudio.exe -clean)
In conclusion, using a combination of solutions such as changing workspace, stop automatic updates and -clean work for me. Try it yourself.
I noticed that after installing cdt, Eclipse always loads the default workspace. The workspace listed in the config.ini in osgi.instance.area.default. Eclipse does not ask which workspace to open regardless if Prompt for workspace on startup is set or not.
How do I force Eclipse to ask which workspace to load on startup?
It works for me if I tick the box Prompt for workspace on startup, which you can find in
Window → Preferences → General → Startup and Shutdown → Workspaces.
I had the same problem with indigo on linux 3.0 X86_64:
After runnning eclipse -clean everything went back to normal.
Thanks to some comment on the eclipse issue:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=134412
Inside the configuration/.settings folder of your Eclipse installation, there is a file called org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs. Open this file in a text editor and change the property SHOW_WORKSPACE_SELECTION_DIALOG from false to true.
Tested with Eclipse 3.7 on Windows.
Using Eclipse Indigo this is how I did it:
Window → Preferences → Startup and Shutdown → Workspaces
Check the box at the top of the window that says "Prompt for workspace on startup"
The “Prompt for workspace at startup” checkbox did not working.
You can setting default workspace, Look for the folder named “configuration” in the Eclipse installation directory, and open up the “config.ini” file.
You’ll edit the "osgi.instance.area.default" to supply your desired default workspace.
Version: Eclipse CIndigo Service Release 2
File > Switch Workspace > Other...
In the textbox, write the path in the Workspace or Browse
It automatically sets the default Workspace during exit.
I followed the thread and tired all things but didn't work. Finally I saw that my eclipse shortcut target is like below
C:\Eclipse_3.6\eclipse\eclipse.exe -clean -data "C:\workplace" ...
I simply removed -data option and it worked. Now I got popup to choose workspace at startup.
cheers.
I had the same issue (in Eclipse Juno), but I just wanted to change the default workspace to the one I'm using
There's a setting in ECLIPSE_DIRECTORY/configuration/config.ini that is causing a specific workspace to be loaded without prompting for a workspace. If you just want to change the default workspace, you can just modify the value or add it if it doesn't exist:
osgi.instance.area.default=#user.home/some_workspace
or
osgi.instance.area.default=/some/absolute/path/some_workspace
Starting eclipse with eclipse -clean did wonders for me.
I can confirm that I am having the same issue. I am also using Eclipse classic with CDT. The funny thing is that it only started happening earlier this evening. Before then, I was always prompted for the workspace. Checking Prompt for workspace on startup has no effect. I am not launching eclipse using a startup script, so the -data flag is not set on launch. I have removed the line osgi.instance.area.default from the configuration/config.ini file, but that had no effect.
A few strange quirks that are incidental to this problem: If I delete the workspace workspace it creates it again upon launch. However, when I switch to one of my "real" workspaces I notice that the workspace workspace is not listed as an option to be switched to.
As would be expected, reinstalling Eclipse resolves the issue. But it would be nicer to find a way to fix the problem without resorting to that.
Under Aptana 3.2.2, in \configuration\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs, edit:
RECENT_WORKSPACES=I\:\\PDT\\workspace
It will check the recent workspace, so just set it to what you want. I do it for running off an external drive.
Editing the config.ini file with
osgi.instance.area.default=\D:\\Projects\\Eclipse Workspace\\
worked for me.
Sometimes you need to pay attention to howw Eclipse is launched. I ever pinned Eclipse by rigk-click on the excutable and pinning it to taskbar. In this way, the Eclipse is launched to use settings under c:\User\public\public Documents\eclipse" which is not very desirable.
However, if you pin it by creating a short-cut, then it will launch to use settings in the folder of Eclipse installation. Then everything makes much more sense.
I'd recommend you to create a shortcut to eclipse.exe with the -data command line option. This way you can create a separate shortcut to each workspace you use, and avoid unnecessary dialogs and mouse clicks.
Windows: Just create an Eclipse shortcut on your desktop, then right-click to open Properties and under Shortcut set something like this as Target: C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe -data C:\Path\to\your\workspace1. This will launch Eclipse and automatically open workspace1.
Repeat the steps for all the workspaces you use often.
I resolved the problem by adding the -showLocation flag to eclipse.ini.
I first tried the -clean option, but that didn't solve the problem. Then I added the -data option with the correct path to the workspace, which worked.
If your Eclipse is auto-closing at startup you can
Open the properties of your shortcut and add -clean at the end of the path,
Or, in a command prompt, run C:\PATH_TO_YOUR_ECLIPSE\eclipse -clean like mentioned in the comments and other answers
I had the same problem on my Eclipse, and calling eclipse -clean did not solve the problem.
In the end I figured out that within the installation folder of Eclipse there is a script called eclipse. This script does some setting of environment variables and then calls eclipse.bin. The call for eclipse.bin contained the this command-line switch:
-data ~/.eclipse
When I removed that switch from start-up script, I got the workspace selection as expected.
Go to Window → Preferences → General → Startup and Shutdown → Workspaces (or Eclipse → Preferences → ... on macOS)
Check the checkbox Prompt for workspace on startup
Then at startup Eclipse will ask for workspace selection.
Eclipse starts from terminal but when i try to start it from gui then it says java runtime environment don't found.
Environment variables are:
JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.6.0_20"
PATH=$PATH:"/opt/jdk1.6.0_20/bin"
And one more thing so far i normally copy jre folder from jdk to eclipse directory, which works fine but what is actual way. i mean this won't be standard way to do that.
Thanks in advance
And one more thing so far i normally
copy jre folder from jdk to eclipse
directory, which works fine
No, this is not necessary or desirable. You should not have to do any such thing.
If you open up a command shell and type "java -version", what comes back?
Edit eclipse.ini (from the Eclipse folder) and add the following at the beginning:
-vm
C:/Java/jdk1.6.0_22/bin
where C:/Java/jdk1.6.0_22/bin should be your path to the java bin directory.
Keep it on two lines.
Well the reason eclipse won't start from GUI despite of the fact that environment variables are set, is:
You have set the variable in bashrc or bash_profile, these two are for the specific logged in user, but you also need to set in etc/profile which is for all the users.
So once you set the PATH and JAVA_HOME in etc/profile it will launch from GUI.
Worked for me! ;)
Faced the same problem and the suggestion addressed my problem!
After setting /etc/profile as indicated in the link below, I logged out and logged back in for GUI based Eclipse to work.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-java_home-path-variable/
I've discovered a curious thing on my Mac. At some point I apparently created two different Eclipse workspaces, one in /Users/username/workspace and the other in /Users/username/Documents/workspace (this may have happened as a result of some troubleshooting a while ago). I never knew until now that anything was amiss because the contents of both workspace folders are visible in the Eclipse Package Explorer.
I only just noticed because I'm trying to use Mercurial from the command line and couldn't find the project folder to create a repository. After some cursing I found the other workspace. The other strange thing is that from Eclipse's perspective, projects from both workspaces appear to be housed in /Users/username/Documents/workspace, even though some projects are only in /Users/username/workspace.
I believe the problem itself is easily solved (import things from one workspace into the other) but I want to understand why it is happening, and haven't been able to find anything about it elsewhere. My suspicion is that this is being caused by metadata that is telling Eclipse about the workspaces in both locations, and / or some Mac file system magic. However, I'm not sure where to start looking. Where I should begin? What might be causing this?
First, I personally prefer Eclipse to present me with a combo-box allowing me to select the workspace to be opened. You can set it in the preferences, under General -> Startup and Shutdown -> Workspace.
If you prefer not to be asked, you can specify the workspace explicitly in the eclipse.ini file (inside the Eclipse.app package) by using the -data switch (more about Eclipse.ini: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini#Mac_OS_X_Example, all the switch options are in the Eclipse help).
Projects are not required to be inside the workspace. I like storing my work outside the workspace, since I usually share projects between workspaces. When creating a project, you can specify a location which is different than the default location. You can see the location of the project by right clicking it in the Project Explorer and selecting Properties.