"JVM startup" error while starting Eclipse Indigo

Question

Running latest SR of Indigo on Win7SP1.

One thing that I find frustrating sometimes is that Eclipse sometimes fails immediately on startup with a "JVM startup" error. It gives me a dialog with the Java command line, and just says it exited with code 1.

Up to today, I was able to start Indigo from my desktop shortcut using JDK 1.70_25. This morning I changed my ini file to reference 1.7.0_40 and restarted it. It failed immediately with that JVM startup error. It doesn't even write anything into the workspace log file.

However, if I first run a Windows cmd and then just paste the contents of my shortcut, it's able to start up without error.

It would really be nice if I could get some better diagnostics when it fails.

Here is my current STS.ini (Using SpringSource Toolkit):

    -vm 
C:/eclipse/Java/jdk1.7.0_40/bin/javaw.exe
-startup 
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.2.0.v20110502.jar
--launcher.library 
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.100.v20110502
-product 
com.springsource.sts.ide
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
384M
-vmargs
-debug
-Xverify:none
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xmn128m
-Xms768m
-Xmx768m
-Xss1m
-XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=320m

Here's the Eclipse shortcut:

C:\eclipse\springsource\sts-2.8.0.RELEASE\STS.exe -showlocation -data "c:\Users\<myuid>\workspace6"

And here is my PATH:

C:\Users\<myuid>\frameworks\apache-maven-3.0.5\bin;C:\eclipse\Java\jdk1.6.0_30\bin;C:\Cygwin\home\<myuid>\bin;C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client;C:\frameworks\db-derby-10.5.3.0-bin\bin;C:\Cygwin\home\<myuid>\bin;C:\Cygwin\home\<myuid>;C:\Users\<myuid>\frameworks\apache-maven-3.0.5\bin;C:\eclipse\Java\jdk1.6.0_30\bin;C:\Cygwin\home\<myuid>\bin;C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client;C:\frameworks\db-derby-10.5.3.0-bin\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\Voltage Security\Voltage SecureFile;C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client;C:\Program Files\RSA SecurID Token Common;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVClient;C:\Program Files\Code Collaborator Client;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Voltage Security\Voltage SecureMail;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Voltage Security;C:\users\<myuid>\frameworks\phantomjs-1.9.0-windows;C:\Program Files\ATT Connect\OutlookAddin\Outlook;C:\Users\<myuid>\frameworks\sonar-runner-2.3\bin;C:\Users\<myuid>\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Cygwin\lib\lapack;C:\frameworks\jaxb-ri-20081030\bin;C:\frameworks\pmd-bin-4.3\bin;C:\Users\<myuid>\workspace4\WorkTreeConfig\target;C:\Users\<myuid>\sysinternals\junction;C:\Users\<myuid>\frameworks\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin;C:\frameworks\jaxb-ri-20081030\bin;C:\frameworks\pmd-bin-4.3\bin;C:\Users\<myuid>\workspace4\WorkTreeConfig\target;C:\Users\<myuid>\sysinternals\junction;C:\Users\<myuid>\frameworks\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin

Answer 1

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