After upgrade to IDEA 2022.1, IDEA hangs on splash screen
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I recently updated to IDEA 2022.1. Now the application will not startup. It hangs on the splash screen and never proceeds. Prior to the update, IDEA was working normally for me.
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After reverting to version 2021.3.3, IDEA starts up again. So the issue seems specific to version 2022.1.
Does it help to delete
options\recentProjects.xmlfile from the configuration directory before starting the IDE?If it does not help, try to start the IDE from the command line and share the console output here.
I'm having the same issue with 2022.1
I updated to 2022.1, now the app wont start.
i looked at the logs and found endless empty INFO lines like the following:
Also, interspersed are other WARNING and SEVERE errors like:
startup log is below:
Matthew 1 Scott
Your case seems to be different.
Does it help to disable https://github.com/t3hnar/CmdSupport plugin?
You can remove the appropriate folder in plugins directory: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#config-directory
I removed the options\recentProjects.xml file from my configuration directory, as suggested, and this did allow IDEA to startup. Interestingly, I shut IDEA down again, then restored the options\recentProjects.xml file, and IDEA now starts up successfully even with the options\recentProjects.xml file in place.
Jbfowler13 we are investigating that in the scope of https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-284309/IDE-hangs-on-splash-screen-trying-to-reopen-inaccessible-project
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I removed the options/recentProjects.xml file - this did not solve the problem.
Then, i followed the advice which was provided to me separately (below):
"Does it help if you delete the plugins directory? (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#plugins-directory)"
This solved the problem, however, as you'd expect from such an action, all of my plugins were deleted and i had to go through the full setup process again for my development environment. In addition to this, bundled maven started misbehaving and bootstrapping on spring boot projects had to be reconfigured.
Matthew 1 Scott it is a third plugin issue, please see: IDEA-292067 IntelliJ Idea Ultimate 2022.1 freezes on splashscreen if Vaadin Designer plugin is installed
and the linked issues.
I had the same issue as Jbfowler13. Existing IDEA hung at splash screen after upgrade to 2022.1. This is on ubuntu 18.04. Eventually did an IDEA uninstall and manual reinstall from tar file. Ran new idea.sh and it still hung at splash screen.
Found this ticket. I followed the solution. Removed .../options/recentProjects.xml. Ran idea.sh. It worked. Exit IDEA. Put back recentProjects.xml and run idea.sh again and it still worked!
Would not have found that "fix" by myself (I was running idea.sh with "#!/bin/sh -x" option hoping to figure things out). So thanks for the workaround.
Can we get a fix for this one? I upgraded from 2023.1.1 to 2023.1.2 to fix it last time. I followed the different directions without success last time. Now it's back and I can't code :(
Michael Oneill
Please contact support at https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/requests/new. Attach the Logs directory: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#logs-directory zipped.