Eclipse Neon won't start due to Provisioning exception

Question

I am having problems starting the standard Eclipse Neon IDE. I am running Eclipse Neon 1 with Java jdk 1.8.0. After rebooting my computer, Eclipse won't start (no new plugins / software were install during last usage). I tried deleting everything in .metadata/.plugins/ per this question but it still won't start up. Please help.

P.S. the date of the log seems to be off; I am not sure why but this is the only !SESSION in this log file.

Here is a partial copy of the .metadata/.log file.

!SESSION 2017-06-13 10:46:37.214 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=4.6.1.M20160907-1200
java.version=1.8.0_131
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product

This is a continuation of log file C:\Users\XXX\workspace\.metadata\.bak_0.log
Created Time: 2017-06-13 11:39:01.054

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 4 0 2017-06-13 11:39:01.054
!MESSAGE Provisioning exception
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.ProvisionException: No repository found at http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/emf/updates/2.10.x/.
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.fail(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:395)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.oomph.util.ReflectUtil.invokeMethod(ReflectUtil.java:116)
    at org.eclipse.oomph.p2.internal.core.CachingRepositoryManager.fail(CachingRepositoryManager.java:330)
    at org.eclipse.oomph.p2.internal.core.CachingRepositoryManager.loadRepository(CachingRepositoryManager.java:233)
    at org.eclipse.oomph.p2.internal.core.CachingRepositoryManager$Metadata.loadRepository(CachingRepositoryManager.java:453)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96)
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Caused by: java.io.EOFException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly
    at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)
    ... 21 more
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.jdt.core 4 985 2017-06-15 10:41:43.156
!MESSAGE Remote host closed connection during handshake
!STACK 0
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
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Update

After opening the CMD with Administrator privilege and running either

> java -version

or

> java

both responded with

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

So I guess that something is wrong with my java installation, not eclipse.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 15 '17 at 07:03

There might be several problems for eclipse to fail on start but in you case this ProvisionException occurs may be because of the you didn't cleared proxy or your network connection is set to Ditect it should be Native. And also check SSH certificates

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_45\jre\lib\security

if not found then get it. Please check once you are running eclipse having same architecture means on 32-bit jdk there should be 32-bit eclipse or it won't work. If you have more than one jre then check eclipse referring to which one. Hope this will help you.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '17 at 07:46

Solved. The problem was with my java installation.

First, I try changing the system environment variable path to only

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_131\bin;

This failed, resulting in the same java error message. Then I 'reverted' to an older java installation changing both JAVA_HOME and path to

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_102\bin;

This works fine and solves the problem.

For reference, these links also helped me.

Eclipse Neon won't start due to Provisioning exception

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