IDEA does not launch on Vista from desktop shortcut

I've been faithfully updating the IDEA7 EAP since inception, and for several months now the EAP builds do not launch from their desktop icon on my Vista desktop. A brief spash screen appears, then vanishes and that's it. I can launch from the idea.bat file if I open a command window and navigate to the EAP's bin folder. I have no problems launching the EAP from my XP desktop, nor do I have a problem with the IDEA6 EAP builds.

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Thank you for fixing this! The M2 build launches directly from the Vista desktop shortcut.

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Build 7230 unfixes launching on Vista from the desktop shortcut. The was fixed with the 7.0M2 release. What happened?

I no longer get any command-line output when I run idea.exe directly as earlier EAP builds produced, and nothing leaps out at me from system/log/idea.log.

Help!

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Hello B. K. Oxley (binkley),

Build 7230 unfixes launching on Vista from the desktop shortcut. The
was fixed with the 7.0M2 release. What happened?

I no longer get any command-line output when I run idea.exe directly
as earlier EAP builds produced, and nothing leaps out at me from
system/log/idea.log.


Could you please try to disable YourKit (remove -agentlib:yjpagent.dll from
the idea.exe.vmoptions file) and see if it helps?

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Dmitry Jemerov
Software Developer
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"


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Hello B. K. Oxley (binkley),

Build 7230 unfixes launching on Vista from the

desktop shortcut. The

was fixed with the 7.0M2 release. What happened?

I no longer get any command-line output when I run

idea.exe directly

as earlier EAP builds produced, and nothing leaps

out at me from

system/log/idea.log.


Could you please try to disable YourKit (remove
-agentlib:yjpagent.dll from
the idea.exe.vmoptions file) and see if it helps?


Made no difference unfortunately.

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Yes, no difference for me as well. And also same problem with build #7241 with or without the agent option.

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And also not working with build #7269.

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i got a message box that some dll is missing (mssomething.dll). accoriding to google, it's a c runtime library. i downloaded it, and now idea (7274) works under vista.

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Maybe this one http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEADEV-20977. It was fixed in next EAP.

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When I run, there are no obvious errors. The splash screen appears and vanishes, and the executable finishes.

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maybe it's a plugin? i have no problems using idea under vista

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Still breaking on 7343. Although, Idea did start correctly from the installer. It is from the desktop icon that it does not start.

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Hello Gary,

Still breaking on 7343. Although, Idea did start correctly from the
installer. It is from the desktop icon that it does not start.


Could you please email me a Process Monitor dump capturing an attempt to
start IDEA from a desktop shortcut under Vista? We're still unable to reproduce
this problem here.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"


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Here is the file as requested.



Attachment(s):
Logfile.PML
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Hello Gary,

Still breaking on 7343. Although, Idea did start correctly from the
installer. It is from the desktop icon that it does not start.


The PerfMon log shows that IntelliJ IDEA tries to read some files from the
"virtual store" for build 6763:
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=141
Please try to delete all IntelliJ IDEA-related files from the virtual store,
delete all existing desktop shortcuts to IntelliJ IDEA, reinstall the latest
build and start it again.

--
Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"


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That fixed it.

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Sorry for getting to this thread so late, but it's been a busy week at work.

I am trying to reproduce this with the RC6 candidate -- it happens to me for RC1-4 -- so I could run with process monitor, but now I get a different problem: A dialog reading:

No JVM could be found on your system.
Please define EXE4J_JAVA_HOME
to point to an installed JDK or JRE or download a JRE from
www.java.com.

Of course, I in fact have 1.6.0_03 JDK installed and JAVA_HOME points to it.

I tried setting EXE4J_JAVA_HOME to both the JDK and JRE locations in the command line to the same effect.

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The only way I can get IDEA to launch is to set JDK_HOME to %JAVA_HOME and then run idea.bat.

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I use IDEA_JDK as a windows environment variable. That seems to work.

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I tried this and it did not work for me when launching idea.exe.

But note that this was never needed in previous IDEA versions, nor in earlier EAP versions.

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I notice in both 7.0 and 7.0.1 release builds that this issue vanishes. Thanks!

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