Intellij doesn't run anymore after updating to version 2020.1

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I updated from 2019.3.4 to 2020.1 and now intellij doesn't start when I click on the application. I don't even get the usual splash screen or opening page. I think the cause is that I had it installed on a different disk drive rather than the C drive, but I have no idea how to fix it. Most of the files look like they've been updated, but some of the directories and old files have traces of the 2019 version.

I ran the idea batch file in command prompt and got this:

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
IDE is being shut down

PS: I'm using windows 10

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At first, please uninstall all 3rd party plugins (by moving out plugins folder) as they could cause such behavior: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tuning-the-ide.html#default-dirs

If it does not help, try to start idea.exe from PowerShell and share its output here. 

 

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Hi,

same here with Fedora 30. It ran fine 'til I updated today. R and Kotlin plugins and Android tools. Removing the plugin folder does not help. Still the same error message.

[oppa@oppa-labor bin]$ intelliJ/bin/idea.sh
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
IDE is being shut down

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@... Do you have anything else in idea.log? 

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Hi Konstantin,

it's up again. I've removed all three folders now and that solved the problem. I was prompted to update again, did that and this time the IDE came up again after hitting 'restart IDE'.

Thanks,

Stephan

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@... Could you share with us which three folder did you remove? I get the exact same error message.

Even removing everything underneath PhpStorm2020.1 didn't help.

Relevant might be "2020-06-19 12:50:50,277 [ 343408] ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Cannot create Application (containerState=DISPOSE_COMPLETED) because container is already disposed (container=Application (containerState=DISPOSE_COMPLETED) ) " from idea.log

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Ok, there was an instance of phpstorm running in the background which prevented it to start anew. Once the two processes were killed, it started.

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Running on Fedora 29, I also ran into this problem with I upgraded to PyCharm 2020.1.3. I am, by the way, running the licensed "professional" version.

It had nothing to do with the plugins. Apparently there was a Pycharm related Java process running. When I killed the Java process and the related Pycharm process I could run PyCharm again.

JetBrains just wasted a couple of hours of my time with this, so I'm not happy. But at least it runs and I can get work done.

While I can run PyCharm and get my work done, I'm still getting the message:

(base) [iank@localhost ~]$ pycharm
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.

As far as I know, I'm running Java 12 (I have both 8 and 12 installed, but 12 should be running).  

JetBrains really needs to fix this issue.

 

 

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Yaroslav Bedrov

Hello Ian,

There is related issue on YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-205954

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Upgraded to PHP Storm and Web Storm to 2020.2 and the issue was gone

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had the same problem after update to 2020.2.2 and `killall java` (on linux) solved it

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