Eclipse exits with error "JVM terminated..."

Question

Every time eclipse is closed, it pops up a error message like this:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-jar /home/kaiyin/opt/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash /home/kaiyin/opt/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.3.0.v20130605-2000/splash.bmp
-launcher /home/kaiyin/opt/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /home/kaiyin/opt/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20130521-0416/eclipse_1506.so
-startup /home/kaiyin/opt/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
--launcher.appendVmargs
-exitdata 1f60014
-product org.eclipse.epp.package.standard.product
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-jar /home/kaiyin/opt/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar 

I am running it on a kubuntu 13.04 machine, it's installed from the official website (not ubuntu repository), here is version info:

Version: Kepler Release
Build id: 20130614-0229

Java version:

java version "1.7.0_25"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.10) (7u25-2.3.10-1ubuntu0.13.04.2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

Answer 1

If you are under linux version maybe ubuntu or others, if you met such question i hope this solution can help you out.

First:open eclipse.ini and find the -startup jar file, and run java -jar ***.jar, if there are errors, you can go to configuration folder and find the latest log file.

Second:read the log file and maybe you can see these logs:

!SESSION 2016-11-14 10:41:29.823 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=4.7.0.I20161027-0700
java.version=1.7.0_79
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US

This is a continuation of log file /home/crabime/Documents/eclipse/configuration/1479091290264.bak_1.log
Created Time: 2016-11-14 10:41:40.161

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.js.npm 2 0 2016-11-14 10:41:40.161
!MESSAGE Could not resolve module: org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.js.npm [857]
  Unresolved requirement: Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.ui
    -> Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.ui; bundle-version="3.109.0.v20161017-1617"; singleton:="true"
       org.eclipse.ui [773]
         Unresolved requirement: Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.jface; bundle-version="[3.10.100,4.0.0)"; visibility:="reexport"
           -> Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.jface; bundle-version="3.13.0.v20161022-1508"; singleton:="true"
              org.eclipse.jface [407]
                Unresolved requirement: Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.swt; bundle-version="[3.104.0,4.0.0)"; visibility:="reexport"
                  -> Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.swt; bundle-version="3.106.0.v20161027-0130"; singleton:="true"
                     org.eclipse.swt [760]                   
                        Unresolved requirement: Require-Capability: osgi.ee; filter:="(&(osgi.ee=JavaSE)(version=1.8))"

and you can see the last line, required jdk version is 1.8, so no matter you change the vmargs requiredJavaVersion to 1.7 or others, make no sense.

Third:if you think the second way is too sophistic, you can also read the readme.html under readme folder.And here i find something useful :

In general, the 4.6 release of the Eclipse Project is developed on Java SE 8 VMs. As such, the Eclipse SDK as a whole is targeted at all modern, desktop Java VMs.

And my eclipse version is 4.7 you can see from the second log file, so without other entry and download jdk 1.8.

Answer 2

This issue mainly comes when the default jdk used by eclipse is having some problem. So better manually download the package and set the environment variable details can be found here

Answer 3

I downloaded *.gz instead of *.rpm from Oracle site. I used jdk version 7u40 64bit. After that problem disappeared.

Answer 4

I have seen this when the bitness of eclipse doesn't match the bitness of your java install. It looks like you have the 64-bit version of eclipse.

If you run java -version does it say something like this:

paulw@desktop:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_27"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.12.6) (6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)