[#IDEA-15447] idea.exe does not run on Vista

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idea.exe does not run on Vista

Created: 04 Oct 07 14:42 Updated: 06 Oct 07 19:22

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Packaging and Installation

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Windows Vista Home Premium

Build:	7,323
Severity:	High

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For many builds now stretching back to the early 7.0 EAP releases, only M2 has launched from the desktop icon. No other builds did, and the current release candidates do not either.

It does run from idea.bat if JDK_HOME is set suitably.

I traced this to idea.exe failing to run. From a Cygwin command window:

Brian@EROS /C/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA 7323/bin
$ ./idea.exe
[YourKit Java Profiler 7.0.2] Using JVMTI (1.6.0_02-b06;Sun Microsystems Inc.;mixed mode, sharing;Windows;32 bit JVM)
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/ClassNotFoundException: error in opening JAR file ..\lib\boot.jar

Brian@EROS /C/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA 7323/bin
$ dir ../lib/boot.jar
../lib/boot.jar*

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Dmitry Jemerov - 05 Oct 07 23:31

Although we weren't able to reproduce the problem, we made some changes that could help fix that. Could you please check if the RC3 build works?

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B. K. Oxley (binkley) - 06 Oct 07 15:58

And also in build #7330 (RC3):

Brian@EROS /C/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA 7330/bin
$ ./idea.exe
[YourKit Java Profiler 7.0.2] Using JVMTI (1.6.0_02-b06;Sun Microsystems Inc.;mixed mode, sharing;Windows;32 bit JVM)
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/ClassNotFoundException: error in opening JAR file c:\progra~1\jetbra~1\intell~2\bin\..\lib\boot.jar

Brian@EROS /C/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA 7330/bin
$ dir ../lib/boot.jar
../lib/boot.jar*

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Dmitry Jemerov - 06 Oct 07 19:22

Let's try one more thing. Could you please install Process Monitor from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx (if you don't have it installed already) and capture a log of starting IDEA (filtered by idea.exe process name)?