[IDV #ZVB-110157]: IDV faulted to start

Hello,

Please temporarily move your .unidata directory out of the way. For example,
since you are running the IDV on Linux:

mv ~/.unidata ~/.unidata.bak

Now start the IDV. What happens?

Best,

Unidata IDV Support


> Hi,
> 
> I couldn't start my idv. I got a message when I was running runIDV (see
> below).
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3332)
> at
> java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:137)
> at
> java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(AbstractStringBuilder.java:121)
> at
> java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:622)
> at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:202)
> at
> java.util.AbstractCollection.toString(AbstractCollection.java:465)
> at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2982)
> at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:131)
> at
> ucar.unidata.idv.IdvCommandLinePrefs.main(IdvCommandLinePrefs.java:76)
> IDV failed to start. Please contact address@hidden
> 
> This error happened after I restarted idv 4 times. I tried to used java web
> start, but error is still the same. Even thought I re-installed java, it
> didn't solve problem.
> 
> My idv version is 5.3 64bit. Operating system is CentOS 7. RAM is 8G.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ZVB-110157
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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