Force.com IDE not able to start

[tillwoerner]

Hello,

We are trying to set up the development environment for our developers. The problem is that after the installation the Force.com IDE dows not start.

All we get is an error message from Forceide, I have attached the copied contets of the message. It would be much appreciated if someone could tell us what we need to change to get it running:

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Forceide
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JVM terminated. Exit code=-1
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:PermSize=128M
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M
-Djava.class.path=C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE\../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
-os win32
-ws win32
-arch x86
-showsplash
-launcher C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE\forceide.exe
-name Forceide
--launcher.library C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE\../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519\eclipse_1206.dll
-startup C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE\../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
-install C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE
-configuration C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE\configuration
-vm C:\Programme\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
-vmargs
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:PermSize=128M
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M
-Djava.class.path=C:\Programme\salesforce.com\Force.com IDE\../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
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OK  
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Best regards,

Till Woerner

[Prasanna__d · Accepted solution]

Find the forceide.ini file. It should be in the same folder as your forceide.

edit the forceide.ini  file and comment out the following lines by adding '#" infornt of them.

#-vmargs

#-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

#-Xms.256m

#-Xmx1024m

#-XX:PermSize=128M

#-XX:MaxPermSize=512M

Also make sure you are using the jdk1.6 version and not the 7. Forceide will not work with Java7

[tillwoerner]

Thanks for your help, it works now...

[Priya_Marupudi]

This worked thank you....

[cleverlemming]

Thanks. Worked for me with OS X 10.8.2.