[Antonio W. Lagnada]

Hi All,

I know that this is an eclipse question but I’m tryint to run MyEclipse 5.0 M1 but I can’t launch the current RC6 or (RC5) to launch.

I double clicked eclipse and got this error message:

“Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.”

JDK 1.5.0_06
Windows XP SP2
1 GB Memory
AMD processor [1809 Mhz, x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 2]

What eclipse version is recommended with MyEclipse 5.0 M1?

[Riyad Kalla]

We use 3.2RC5 internally, try that.

Also I have no idea why it won’t load, maybe the download was corrupted?

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

Yeah, that definitely isn’t working. It must be an AMD 64-bit thing. It’s weird. Non of the 3.2RC[n] works.

[Riyad Kalla]

I’m running on a 64-bit 4800 X2 on Windows XP Pro 64-bit, I know the problem you mean, I had it. I would just double click the EXE and absolutely nothing happened. Then I stepped up or down an RC, and viola, it worked again (no MyEclipse installed yet in these cases, was just an Eclipse launcher issue).

I am using the 32-bit VM though, are you using that or the 64-bit one?

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

Actually I just double-checked my about from IE and there is nothing there that says this is a 64-bit machine.

Damn. I wonder why I’m having issues.

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

OK. This is what I have. It’s a 64-bit processor running in 32-bit mode.

Windows XP Pro SP2 (32-bit)
AMD Athlon(TM) 64 Processor 3000+

Please let me know if there’s any additional info on this

[Riyad Kalla]

Unfortunately I don’t. Is your workspace in any weird location like a network drive or something?

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

No nothing like that. It’s a typical work space located in the main hard drive.

[Riyad Kalla]

What JDK are you using? Maybe there is a problem there. Try java -version

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

java version “1.5.0_06”
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

[Riyad Kalla]

hrmm, that’s what I’m using. Can you try with the most recently nightly build for kicks? You are creating a new dir each time and not just unzipping Eclipse versions ontop of eachother right?

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

Yes. Definitely, it’s a different directory.

For example:

C:\eclipse\eclipse-3.1 [old]
C:\eclipse\eclipse-3.2 [new]

I will try and download the latest nightly.

[Antonio W. Lagnada]

OK I finally resolved this issue. I guess someone should tell Eclipse.org.

The eclipse.exe is bad. I can double click on startup.jar and was able to launch eclipse that way. Also, I copied the eclipse.exe file from 3.1 and replaced my eclipse.exe on 3.2; double clicked it and it works fine. Eclipse.exe is just a wrapper/launcher to the java app.

😉

[Riyad Kalla]

Filing a bug before 3.2 goes GA would be a good start: bugs.eclipse.org

Just so they can look into it.

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