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Eclipse 3.5 Startup error JVM Terminated. Exit Code=-1 —> Resolution January 4, 2010

I too faced the problem of “JVM Terminated. Exit Code=-1″ when i installed eclipse 3.5 in a fresh directory.
This is faced by many people and there are some workarounds given by many people. I thank them for their efforts.

Let me list down what worked for me.

Solution 1:
Renaming eclipse.exe to eclipse1.exe

Solution 2:
The real problem is with the eclipse.ini file. If you have you old exlipse.ini file from the previous version that is working fine then you can adopt from that and change only the entries like plugins\, launch\ etc which refers to the new jar version. For example the for plugin the entry will be like the following.
plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar

Ok.

The below is my eclipse.ini file entries.

–launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-framework
plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
-vmargs
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-Duser.name=My Name

More Info:
I use Windows XP and my machine has multiple JVM installations. 1.5, 1.6 from Sun and also Jrockit JVM from 1.5.

I personally prefer Solution 2, for very obvious reasons.