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Question

Eclipse is unable to open, have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem. Now I keep getting the following error message:

A Java Runt

Answer 1

I had this problem and it was due to my windows machine playing up. I went into control panel -> system -> advanced - environment variables.

I edited the PATH variable (which was already correctly set up), changed NOTHING, clicked OK to come back out of the screens.

Then eclipse worked. No idea why, except because windows. Hopefully this may help someone.