Why does eclipse fails to load with code=14 error?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • I get the following error pop-up when starting Eclipse.
  • This is on a vm running RHEL 7.1
JVM terminated. Exit code=14
/usr/bin/java
-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true
-Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init>
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/dom/parser/cpp/semantics/CPPTemplates,instantiateTemplate
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/pdom/dom/cpp/PDOMCPPLinkage,addBinding
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/revisited/PythonPathHelper,isValidSourceFile
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/tycho/core/osgitools/EquinoxResolver,newState
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/share/eclipse/dropins
-Declipse.p2.skipMovedInstallDetection=true
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-jar /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/lib64/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20150407-1319.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/lib64/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.4.2.v20150407-0918/splash.bmp
-launcher /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/lib64/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20150407-1319/eclipse_1608.so
-startup /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/lib64/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20150407-1319.jar
--launcher.appendVmargs
-exitdata 98004
-protect master
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true
-Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init>
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/dom/parser/cpp/semantics/CPPTemplates,instantiateTemplate
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/cdt/internal/core/pdom/dom/cpp/PDOMCPPLinkage,addBinding
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/revisited/PythonPathHelper,isValidSourceFile
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/tycho/core/osgitools/EquinoxResolver,newState
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/share/eclipse/dropins
-Declipse.p2.skipMovedInstallDetection=true
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-jar /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/lib64/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20150407-1319.jar

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Developer toolset 3

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