Eclipse crashes at startup; Exit code=13

问题

I am trying to work with Eclipse Helios on my x64 machine (Im pretty sure now that this problem could occur with any eclipse) but it just doesn't cooperate.
When I try to run eclipse I get the following:

I have installed

Helios EE x64 (latest version)
JDK 1.6.025 (x64)

I have linked my Environment Variables up correctly and tried to compile a Java file through cmd and have succeeded.

Whenever I tried running eclipse i get exit code=13 (required java version=1.5)

I tried running the following in cmd: -vm "mypath\jdk1.6.025\jre\bin" command as forums suggested

as well as other paths -vm "mypath\jdk1.6.025\bin" -vm "mypath\jdk1.6.025\jre\bin\javaw.exe" even -vm "mypath\jre6\bin" out of desperation to no avail.

I am all out of ideas and I wonder if anybody had this problem. I even downloaded the helios x86 version and x86 JDK version yet it did not fix the problem. (I changed the environment variables) I changed everything back but I'm stuck...

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回答1:

It turns out that a directory had an ! in its name and eclipse had a problem with that.

Once I switched the directory (from Desktop which is located in the user directory which had ! in it to C:/ ) everything worked fine. (look at the Djava.class.path in the image located in my the question above for the whole path - it should make it clear what the problem was)

Vista allows you to create a username that contains ! character and then a lot of programs have issues with it

Update

If somebody is still getting this problem even though their path is ok I suggest

trying to look at the Environment Variables
then try uninstalling the Helios EE ( or any other version of ee you are running ) and JDK and then reinstalling the 86x versions of both (they should still work on the 64x platform).
for further explanation look here

Thank you everybody that tried to help

回答2:

Please, check that your have downloaded the x64 version. ;)

And your installed Java, is x86. Use Eclipse x86 if you use Java x86.

回答3:

Because your eclipse's env-arch was not matched with java-arch, for instance: eclipse-64bit run in java-32bit or vice versa.

In Windows: Set correct env path to the specific 32 or 64bit java acording to eclipse.

In Linux: Try run: [path-to-eclipse]/eclipse -vm [jdk-path]/bin

回答4:

What version of java is on your path when you start eclipse? Try entering java -version on a command prompt. You will want Sun java 1.5 or higher. See http://www.ehow.com/how_4784069_terminated-exit-code-error-eclipse.html

回答5:

This turned out to be a permissions error for me. I change the kepler folder, eclipse root directory to have permissions set to everyone all. This is going to be a security risk so I will need to set the permissions to be program specific. using procmon.exe I found that javaw.exe was getting write permissions denied. The programmers of eclipse and javaw.exe did not give those programs elevated permissions to run as trustedinstaller.