IntelliJ doesn't start under Vista

Tried using JDK 1.6 (rc)
IntelliJ said it wants 1.5 and shut down.

Launch IDEA with -Didea.no.jdk.check=true option.

Just add the following to your idea.properties file:

idea.no.jdk.check=true

I've been running IDEA on JDK 6 for months on WinXP without any real problems.
Haven't tried Vista though...

Tried using JDK 1.6 (rc)
IntelliJ said it wants 1.5 and shut down.

Tried the suggestion about the nocheck for jdk.
It went ahead. But then crashed with a set of different exceptions (below).
Also, tried 5.1.1, but that failed to start too. Though I didn't bother looking where the exceptions went.


Eugene, please have someone look into this asap. I can't bare going back to eclipse (which started just fine, btw).

Exception list for Vista beta 2, JDK 1.6 rc, Dimetra
Using JVMTI
Profiler agent is listening on port 10001...
*** HINT ***: To get profiling results, connect to
the application from the profiler UI
ERROR - icator.p2p.MulticastPingThread - /168.254.205.100 IDEtalk Mul
ticast Thread is terminated:
An invalid argument was supplied
java.net.SocketException: An invalid argument was supplied
at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.socketSetOption(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.setOption(PlainDatagramSocketImpl.java:299)
at java.net.MulticastSocket.setInterface(MulticastSocket.java:420)
at jetbrains.communicator.p2p.MulticastPingThread.run(MulticastPingThread.java:90)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.font.FontManager.getFont2D(Native Method)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:343)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.(FontDesignMetrics.java:336) at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:284) at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:910) at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1572) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.g etPreferedWidth(MemoryUsagePanel.java:25) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.u pdateUI(MemoryUsagePanel.java:4) at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:64) at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:87) at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:95) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.< init>(MemoryUsagePanel.java:31) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel.(MemoryUsa gePanel.java:9) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.StatusBarImpl.(StatusBarImpl.java:50) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeRootPane.b(IdeRootPane.java:69) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeRootPane.(IdeRootPane.java:39) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeFrame.]]>(IdeFrame.java:42)
at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.WindowManagerImpl.showFrame(WindowManage
rImpl.java:156)
at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication$IdeStarter.main(IdeaApplication.java:6)
at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:23)
at com.intellij.idea.Main$3.run(Main.java:2)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:598)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:66)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.a(IdeEventQueue.java:12)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:120)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThre
ad.java:173)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Error during dispatching of
java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=com.intellij.idea.Mai
n$3@1563e06,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1150391632656] on sun.awt.w
indows.WToolkit@842e74
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.font.FontManager.getFont2D(Native Method)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:343)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.(FontDesignMetrics.java:336) at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:284) at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:910) at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1572) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.g etPreferedWidth(MemoryUsagePanel.java:25) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.u pdateUI(MemoryUsagePanel.java:4) at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:64) at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:87) at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:95) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.< init>(MemoryUsagePanel.java:31) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel.(MemoryUsa gePanel.java:9) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.StatusBarImpl.(StatusBarImpl.java:50) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeRootPane.b(IdeRootPane.java:69) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeRootPane.(IdeRootPane.java:39) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeFrame.]]>(IdeFrame.java:42)
at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.WindowManagerImpl.showFrame(WindowManage
rImpl.java:156)
at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication$IdeStarter.main(IdeaApplication.java:6)
at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:23)
at com.intellij.idea.Main$3.run(Main.java:2)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:598)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:66)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.a(IdeEventQueue.java:12)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:120)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThre
ad.java:273)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - IntelliJ IDEA (Demetra) #532
1 Build #5321
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - JDK: 1.6.0-rc
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client
VM
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc
.
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - OS: Windows Vista
ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Last Action:

Message was edited by:
Alex Rass

Try getting rid of the YourKit profiler by removing -agentlib:yjpagent from
the vm options.

Tried the suggestion about the nocheck.
It went ahead. But then crashed with a set of different exceptions.
Using JVMTI
Profiler agent is listening on port
10001...

Thanks for the suggestion.
Now the profiler lines don't show up, but I am still getting the same crash in the socket options and what seems to be the real problem, with the swing's getFont2D call.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.font.FontManager.getFont2D(Native Method)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:343)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.(FontDesignMetrics.java:336)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:284)
at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:910)
at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1572)
at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.getPreferedWidth(MemoryUsagePanel.java:25) ...
]]>

Just how old is your JDK 6 build? I ask because I saw this bug report that
looks related, but it's for a very old build:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6272022

You mention using JDK 1.6 (rc), but there is no such thing AFAIK. There was
a beta 1 some time back, and beta 2 is out now. In addition to that you can
always get the weekly builds (which I have found to be fairly reliable) from
https://mustang.dev.java.net/

Thanks for the suggestion.

Now the profiler lines don't show up, but I am still getting the same
crash in the socket options and what seems to be the real problem,
with the swing's getFont2D call.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.font.FontManager.<b>getFont2D</b>(Native Method)
at
sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java
:343)
at
sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.<init>(FontDesignMetrics.java:336)
at
sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:284)
at
sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:910)
at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1572)
at
<b>com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel
.getPreferedWidth(MemoryUsagePanel.java:25)</b>
..

hn....
it is still doesn't work when using jdk1.6.0beta2

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-beta2-b86)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-beta2-b86, mixed mode, sharing)

the getFont2D exeception thrown

Mine's pretty recent:

build 1.6.0-rc-b87

Same issue, using Vista beta2 (for x86-64), JDK 1.5.0_07, and IntelliJ 5.1.2. IntelliJ and the JDK are running in 32-bit compatibility mode.

Java -version reports that it's this:

java version "1.5.0_07"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

Here's the IntelliJ log file:

-

2006-06-21 17:27:12,812 INFO - #com.intellij.idea.Main - -

IDEA STARTED -

2006-06-21 17:27:12,937 INFO - #com.intellij.idea.Main - Using "FocusKiller" library to prevent focus stealing.
2006-06-21 17:27:13,124 INFO - j.ide.license.impl.IdeaLicense - Network startup failed.
2006-06-21 17:27:13,124 INFO - nse.impl.LicenseAuthorizorImpl - Checking NotNull: null
<< Various LicenseAuthorizorImpl lines removed>>
2006-06-21 17:27:14,278 INFO - j.ide.plugins.PluginDescriptor - Cannot find plugin Weblogic resource-bundle: com.intellij.WeblogicBundle
2006-06-21 17:27:14,294 INFO - j.ide.plugins.PluginDescriptor - Cannot find plugin JSHtmlBridge resource-bundle: com.intellij.javascript.JsHTMLBridgeBundle
2006-06-21 17:27:14,294 INFO - j.ide.plugins.PluginDescriptor - Cannot find plugin IntentionPowerPack resource-bundle: com.siyeh.IntentionPowerPakBundle
2006-06-21 17:27:15,308 INFO - ij.vfs.local.win32.FileWatcher - Native file watcher is operational.
2006-06-21 17:27:17,523 INFO - om.intellij.util.ProfilingUtil - Profiling agent is not enabled. Add -Xrunyjpagent:port=10100 to idea.vmoptions if necessary to profile IDEA.
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=com.intellij.idea.Main$3@161d282,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1150910834700] on sun.awt.windows.WToolkit@14362d9
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - IntelliJ IDEA 5.1.2 Build #4267
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - JDK: 1.5.0_07
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - OS: Windows NT (unknown)
2006-06-21 17:27:17,554 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Last Action:
2006-06-21 17:27:17,570 ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=com.intellij.idea.Main$3@161d282,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1150910834700] on sun.awt.windows.WToolkit@14362d9
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Hashtable.get(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.getFontMetrics(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(Unknown Source)
at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.getPreferedWidth(MemoryUsagePanel.java)
at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.updateUI(MemoryUsagePanel.java:7)
at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.(MemoryUsagePanel.java:27) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel.(MemoryUsagePanel.java:37) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.StatusBarImpl.(StatusBarImpl.java:131) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeRootPane.b(IdeRootPane.java:50) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeRootPane.(IdeRootPane.java:36) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeFrame.]]>(IdeFrame.java:23)
at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.WindowManagerImpl.showFrame(WindowManagerImpl.java:96)
at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication$IdeStarter.main(IdeaApplication.java:4)
at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:31)
at com.intellij.idea.Main$3.run(Main.java:1)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:56)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.a(IdeEventQueue.java:91)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:132)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
2006-06-21 17:27:17,586 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opening zip-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,586 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opened
2006-06-21 17:27:17,586 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanning entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,601 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanned
2006-06-21 17:27:17,601 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorting entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorted
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opening zip-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\tomcat\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opened
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanning entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\tomcat\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanned
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorting entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\tomcat\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorted
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opening zip-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\devkit\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opened
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanning entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\devkit\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanned
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorting entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\devkit\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorted
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opening zip-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\weblogicIntegration\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Opened
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanning entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\weblogicIntegration\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Scanned
2006-06-21 17:27:17,632 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorting entries in jar-file C:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 5.1\plugins\weblogicIntegration\lib\resources_en.jar...
2006-06-21 17:27:17,648 INFO - enapi.vfs.impl.jar.JarFileInfo - Sorted

Tried the new beta idea5350 and latest jdk-6-rc-bin-b89-windows-i586-22_jun_2006.
Same problem.

ERROR - com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue - Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=com.intellij.idea.Main$3@d9783e,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1151421066770] on sun.awt.windows.WToolkit@a50da4
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.font.FontManager.getFont2D(Native Method)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:343)
at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.(FontDesignMetrics.java:336) at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:284) at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:910) at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1572) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.getPreferedWidth(MemoryUsagePanel.java:33) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.status.MemoryUsagePanel$IndicatorPanel.updateUI(MemoryUsagePanel.java:23) at javax.swing.JPanel.]]>(JPanel.java:64)
at ...

Tried the idea5350 and latest jdk-6-rc-bin-b90-windows-i586-30_jun_2006.
Same problem.

See http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=233896 for a workaround of this jdk problem.