after system crash, can't get idea to start (even with idea reinstall) Follow
Had a system crash in fedora, and now IDEA won't start up.
I have downloaded both IDEA 10.5.2 and Sun's jdk1.6.0_27, put both on my desktop.
in idea.sh I set
export JAVA_HOME="/home/jedierikb/Desktop/jdk1.6.0_27"
when I run idea.sh... nothing happens.
I echo'd $IDEA_JDK/bin/java $JVM_ARGS -Djb.restart.code=88 $IDEA_MAIN_CLASS_NAME $*
and got this back:
/home/jedierikb/Desktop/jdk1.6.0_27/bin/java -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=250m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m -ea -Xbootclasspath/a:../lib/boot.jar -Djb.restart.code=88 com.intellij.idea.Main
and nothing else.
I tried running that command myself and got back:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/intellij/idea/Main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.intellij.idea.Main
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: com.intellij.idea.Main. Program will exit.
I have deleted every hidden IDEA and intelli directoryj from ~/ (e.g. .IntelliJIdea10 )
Any suggestions?
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Hello,
What is the value of CLASSPATH env var on IJ startup? Can you check that $IDEA_HOME/lib/bootstrap.jar is not corrupted?
Denis
Try to reinstall IDEA, probably some files were corrupted.