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> Hello representative of IDV support, > > I am a new user of IDV and have just installed IDV and faced with the > following error. I have googled this error but I am not able to solve this > issue. Could you get me fix this error? I would appreciate that. > > Thanks, > Sun > Hi Sun, I need more information to understand the problem you facing. Which version of IDV? When and how did you get this error message? Yuan > java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.PluginClassLoader.<init>(PluginClassLoader.java:102) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager$3.<init>(PluginManager.java:1737) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager.loadJar(PluginManager.java:1737) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager.handlePlugin(PluginManager.java:1508) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager.loadPlugins(PluginManager.java:1460) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager.<init>(PluginManager.java:246) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvBase.makeManager(IdvBase.java:255) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvBase.doMakePluginManager(IdvBase.java:1097) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvBase.getPluginManager(IdvBase.java:1109) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvResourceManager.init(IdvResourceManager.java:1200) > at ucar.unidata.idv.StateManager.initState(StateManager.java:421) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.<init>(IntegratedDataViewer.java:305) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.<init>(IntegratedDataViewer.java:224) > at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.<init>(DefaultIdv.java:69) > at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.main(DefaultIdv.java:150) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: URE-486502 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.