Just installed Force.com IDE on my Win7 Desktop, using the standalone installer from Salesforcewebsite. This is a pulse based installer that installs Force.com IDE as an eclipse plugin. However, once the installation finished I was greeted with the following error: JVM terminated. Exit code=-1. Below is a screenshot of the error pop-up..
How to solve this issue : In my case the problem was that -XX:MaxPermSize of 512 MB was causing the JVM to crash. The solution is simple. open forceide.ini file. This file will be located in the same folder where your forceide.exe is installed.
eg. “C:Program Filessalesforce.comForce.com IDEforceide.ini”. The content of this file are as follows –
#utf8 (do not remove)
-startup
../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
–launcher.library
../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
-install
C:Program Filessalesforce.comForce.com IDE
-configuration
C:Program Filessalesforce.comForce.com IDEconfiguration
-vmargs
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:PermSize=128M
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M
To fix this error, change the value of -XX:MaxPermSize from 512M to 256M. After making this change, I was able to start Force.com IDE without any issues.
