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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: exit code=13

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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Xitcod13
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  • Is java on the path? What is the exact output of `java -version`? – vitaut May 29 '11 at 09:06
  • java version "1.6.0_25" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_25-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode) – Xitcod13 May 29 '11 at 09:22
  • Please post your solution as an answer and mark it as accepted, rather than editing the question. – skaffman May 31 '11 at 10:04

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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

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

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

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  • my question states: I have installed * Helios EE x64 (latest version) * JDK 1.6.025 (x64) Also I allready figured out what is wrong and answered my question. – Xitcod13 Aug 08 '12 at 20:27
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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

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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.

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I faced the same problem

Turned out my Java version in the PATH had been updated to 1.8

Once I changed this back to 1.7, my Eclipse started without issues

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  • Welcome to stackoverflow.Little more explanation would help out the fellow programmers to understand why the solution worked out. – Nagama Inamdar Dec 26 '14 at 08:45
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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

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