Cannot run Eclipse JVM terminated Exit code 13

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I just append  -vm C  Program Files Java jre6 bin javaw exe  in eclipse ini then I try to start eclipse again and got this error  Give me how to solve or link that actually solve it   this is my eclipse ini  -startup  plugins org eclipse equinox launcher 1 1 0 v20100507 jar  --launcher library  plugins org eclipse equinox launcher win32 win32 x86 1 1 1 R36x v20100810  -showsplash  org eclipse platform --launcher XXMaxPermSize 256m  --launcher defaultAction  openFile  -vm  C  Program Files Java jre6 bin javaw exe -vmargs  -Xms40m  -Xmx384m   Thank you

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I was using Eclipse Juno and I didn t remember if it was 32 or 64 bits  I installed Java 32 bits and that s why it failed  I then installed Java 64 bits and Eclipse Juno is working again   I also removed any java or jre reference in my environment variables  PATH

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For Eclipse   Added this two lines in eclipse ini   Second line represents the JDK location of the javaw exe file      -vm       C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 60 bin javaw exe   Note  place -vm lines before -vmargs  otherwise default location is taken   For STS  Change the same as above in STS ini

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I fixed it reinstalling the jdk  In my case it was necessary to do   java -version sudo apt-get purge openjdk  sudo add-apt-repository ppa webupd8team java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer java -version javac -version   taken from Install Java JDK JRE  oracle  in Kubuntu 13 04 from apt

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Whenever you see this error  go to Configuration directory and check for a log file generated just now  It should have proper Exception stacktrace  Mine was a case where I got an updated 32-bit JRE  or JVM  installed which was the default Java that got added to the Path  And my Eclipse installation was 64-bit which meant it needed a 64-bit VM to run its native SWT libraries  So I simply uninstalled the 32-bit JVM and replaced it with a 64-bit JVM   I wonder if they will improve this reporting mechanism  instead of silently generating a log file in some directory

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After java update  eclipse will not start because default jdk location has changed  Adding the following lines to eclipse ini file solved my problem immediately   -vm C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 75 bin javaw exe   I added these lines just before vmargs  It looks like as the following        --launcher defaultAction openFile -vm C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 75 bin javaw exe -vmargs -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 5 -Dhelp lucene tokenizer standard -Xms40m -Xmx512m   For more information on eclipse ini  visit this the site http   wiki eclipse org Eclipse ini -vm value  Windows Example  In my case  i use 32 bit eclipse and java  If you installed both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of java  be careful to choose the right version  For 64 bit versions  refer to the javaw exe file under the directory   C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 60 bin

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Well  it better not be Eclipse 3 1 x and Java 7  I resolved this combination by upgrading to Eclipse 3 8 x

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1   Open the SpringToolSuite4 ini File  2   Search For the  openFile  text in the SpringToolSuite4 ini file  3   Provide the javaw exe file location in SpringToolSuite4 ini  4   Note   Provide the New Line between -vm and your javaw exe file location path as shown below      openFile   -vm     C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 bin javaw exe   -vmargs   -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 8   -Xms256m

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Make sure the Eclipse and the Java that you are using are both either 32-bit or 64-bit   You cannot run 64-bit eclipse with 32-bit JRE   java -version   Java HotSpot TM  64-Bit Server VM  The 32 bit version JRE will not have 64-Bit in it

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I just hit this too   Turns out that at least for me  this was due to trying to use a win64 version of the JRE with a win32 Eclipse   I seems that win32 Eclipse requires a win32 Java  what is called -586 in the list of Java installers from Oracle Sun       The reason I was using both is that I was trying to pinpoint a bug that only manifested itself in 64-bit Eclipse  so I needed a 32-bit to compare to   Once I installed BOTH the  x64   win64  and  i586   win32  versions of the JRE on my machine  things work fine and no error 13   You can apparently have both installed at the same time

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This error occurred to me on ubuntu  having installed 32bit and 64bit java  Use  sudo update-alternatives --config java   to set the right version to use as default

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It may just be the way the error shows  and not how it is written in the eclipse ini file   but there is text in Eclipse ini  Specifying the JVM  that says the following         The -vm option and its value  the path  must be on separate lines    The value must be the full absolute path to the Java executable  not just to the Java home directory    The -vm option must occur before the -vmargs option  since everything after -vmargs is passed directly to the JVM

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I used the new Eclipse Installer  I didn t like the installation path and I changed it manually  After that  I got the exit code 13 message too   There is a new property in the eclipse ini file named -install  I just had to modify it with the new location  and that solved this issue   In the new installer I selected D  eclipse  but the IDE was installed at D  eclipse eclipse  So  I moved the folder manually  The next time I tried to open eclipse I got the exit error  Thus  I had to modify eclipse ini and set the current location   -install D  eclipse

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I tried many way and placed -VM argument at suggested place  But It would not work  Finally I got solution  -Vm args should be place eclipse ini file before execution of any plugin or jar  I tried with latest eclipse  Photon   in ubuntu 18 04 It is perfectly working for me   -startup -vm          usr local java jdk1 8 0 251 bin java exe plugins org eclipse equinox launcher 1 5 700 v20200207-2156 jar --launcher library plugins org eclipse equinox launcher gtk linux x86 64 1 1 1100 v20190907-0426 -product org eclipse epp package jee product -showsplash org eclipse epp package common --launcher defaultAction openFile --launcher defaultAction openFile --launcher appendVmargs -vmargs -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 8 -Dosgi instance area default  user home eclipse-workspace -XX  UseG1GC -XX  UseStringDeduplication --add-modules ALL-SYSTEM -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 8 -Dosgi dataAreaRequiresExplicitInit true -Xms256m -Xmx2048m --add-modules ALL-SYSTEM

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You need to check if your PC has a 64-bit or 32-bit operating system  then same goes for your JDK  64-bit 32-bit  and also for Eclipse  64-bit 32-bit    Make sure they are all the same  if not  you need to download the one that matches your bitness

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I had the same issue on Ubuntu  and solved it by unpack all   pack files in jdk directory  for example  cd  usr java jdk1 7 0 03 jre lib sudo    bin unpack200 rt pack rt jar

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I did couple of things inorder to get rid of this annoying error as modifying  ini never worked for me     Installed latest JDK  Delete old eclipse IDE folder completely  This time i Unziped to different location   Double Click  eclipse exe  Works now like charm Use default workspace to load your old projects   Am suspecting it to be JDK s Java VM issue more than eclipse

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I had the same issue with eclipse in my both machine  I had  jre 32 bit installed  So I removed 32 bit and installed 64 bit instead and it worked perfectly

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I had the same error when configuring eclipse ini to use JRE6   Turns out I caused this error by incorrectly configuring eclipse to use the 64 bit JVM while running a 32 bit version of eclipse 3 7     The correct configuration required the eclipse ini -vm argumument to use  C  Program Files  x86    instead of  C  Program Files     Make sure that the JVM version  32 64 bit  you use matches the eclipse version  32 64 bit

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I had this issue also   I had an old JDK1 8 0 05   I installed the newest JDK1 8 0 111 and everything works great now   Just be sure to update your environment variable     I am on Windows 7 64 bit  Using Eclipse Neon 1a   Hope that helps someone

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In my case JAVA path was not set in Env variables  Started to work after correct path was set in Env PATH   Type javac in command prompt and make sure JAVA PATH is correct

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This can happen when the PATH environment variable is point to a wrong java instalation

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I face same issue with sts 3 8 4  so I tried different settings but not luck  I reinstall jdk again n tried but same problem  Finally I downloaded sts 3 8 2 n it runs with out any issue  Using windows 8  64 bit os  thanks

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In my opinion the most answers here regarding different architectures of Eclipse and Java are simply wrong and this can be easily checked using e g  Process Monitor under Windows  The -vm option is there to run a specific version of java and the point of it is  that the configured process is started and runs all the Java code on its own  that s why you configure up to java exe  In that case you DON T need to have the same architecture for Eclipse and Java  but can happily mix both 32 Bit and 64 Bit  You only CAN T mix both  if you DON T use -vm  but let Eclipse load Java natively into its own process using jvm dll and such  That latter behavior is Eclipse s default  but not the case anymore if you properly configure -vm in eclipse ini   If you don t believe me  do some tests on your own using different architectures of Eclipse and Java and do configure -vm or not properly  In the end  that s exactly what the questioner described in his comment to the accepted answer   Cannot run Eclipse  JVM terminated  Exit code 13  He is telling that a 64 Bit JDK is working now  but in his screenshot one can see that his Eclipse is 32 Bit  because the path for launcher library is 32 Bit   And now for the reason I came here  Ony of my customers had some problems loading one of our Eclipse OSGI based applications as well and Java exited with exit code 13  In the end it showed that the problem was not about -vm or the architectures of Java and eclipse exe  but instead he was simply missing config ini and I guess eclipse exe wasn t aware what to load or such  After we recognized that and put a config iniback in place  the app loaded fine with using -vm and a 64 Bit JRE7 in combination with a 32 Bit eclipse exe

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The error means it s the wrong JVM version for that version of Eclipse  The link has more details   http   www ehow com how 4784069 terminated-exit-code-error-eclipse html

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Before going to the solution  let us know why it is showing that error  If you know the problem behind this issue we can easily fix that error   Reason 1  The most common reason behind this problem is  we are trying to install different bit version-that is  64 bit or 32 bit  version of the software  It maybe either Eclipse or Java   Solution  Check which version of operating system you are running make sure you downloaded the same version of Eclipse as well as same version of Java software   Reason 2  Configuration mistake in Eclipse ini  file  Solution  Add this line  -vm then path of your java sdk  at the end of Eclipse ini  file  for example  -vm C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 71 bin javaw exe  Reason 3  Special characters            in Eclipse installation directory   Solution  Make sure you don   t have any special characters   Reason 4  You have added JAVA path two times in PATH system variable and both the path are different    Solution  Remove one incorrect different JAVA path from PATH system variable   Reason 5  You maybe using latest version of Eclipse  but you might be using  wrong version or unsupported version  of Java Virtual Machine  JVM    Solution  To check which version of java you are using open command prompt by pressing win R key and type cmd and press enter  Now in that console type Java -version command to know java version  Now research whether eclipse support that version or not  Or You can open    readme    folder in Eclipse folder and open readme eclipse html to see which version it supports

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for ones with Eclipse Neon   I wanted to run Eclipse Neon and had JRE 1 8 but JDK 1 7 It returned error 13 then I installed java JDK 1 8 and everything worked like a charm

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Recently I faced same issue My version of eclipse didnt support java version 8   I had accidently installed jre 8 on my machine which automatically updated my PATH variable by appending  C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath  in the beginging which led eclipse to pick up this version and ignore the manually added 1 6 version which came later in order and crash with exit code 13   I just removed this string from the path so which led system to pick up my older version and eclipse started just fine

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use the configuration below       -startup     plugins org eclipse equinox launcher 1 3 0 v20130327-1440 jar     --launcher library     plugins org eclipse equinox launcher win32 win32 x86 64 1 1 200 v20130807-1835     -product     org springsource ggts ide     --launcher defaultAction     openFile     --launcher XXMaxPermSize     256M     -vm     C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 51 jre bin javaw exe     -vmargs     -Dorg eclipse swt browser IEVersion 10001     -Dgrails console enable interactive false     -Dgrails console enable terminal false     -Djline terminal jline UnsupportedTerminal     -Dgrails console class grails build logging GrailsEclipseConsole     -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 6     -Xms40m     -Xmx768m     -XX MaxPermSize 256m     -Dorg eclipse swt browser IEVersion 10001

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I just had the same issue  and spend about an hour trying to solve the problem  In the end it was a     character in the path   So I renamed  C    IDE eclipse 3 7   to  C    IDE eclipse 3 7   and that solved the problem

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Look at the second line of the message box  There you can see which java runtime in fact is started  Mine was suddenly C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath javaw exe  This happened after I have installed a  chrome java updater   Chrome browser moaned   your java is outdated  you have to update         Before this  chrome java update  my eclipse  luna jee x64  started without error  Looking closer to the background I detected following  the chrome java updater  notabene started from an Oracle site  added C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath in front of the env var PATH  It contains three symbolic links to the newest java 8 JRE installation in  x86  program folder -  hence to a 32 bit java JRE  Oracle replaces with Java8 the old technique having the symlinks in system32  64bit  resp  SysWOW64  32bit    Meanwhile I learned  Whatever java installer you have executed last  the   exe  leads windows to remember that java flavour  32b or 64b   with the result that after an update the links in C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath point to a java installation of the remembered flavour  If you have a 64b eclipse installation and encounter the described error  just re-install the newest 64b JDK  After that the java updates do no more link to a 32b version  And eclipse 64b will start correctly without the entry in eclipse ini

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Go to the folder where you saved Eclipse  Look in the configuration folder at the startup log  It will give you a much better diagnostic than  exit code 13

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simply install 64 bit version of JAVA from http   java com en download manual jsp  and uninstall older version if prompted by the 64 bit installer

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Just uninstalled jre-32 bit version and It worked fine for me

[eclipse] Cannot run Eclipse; JVM terminated. Exit code=13

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