RAD sporadic errors - Could not initialize com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager

Question

I am using RAD version 7.5.4 and whenever I am opening the IDE, the following error pops up.

An error has occurred. See error log for more details. com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager (initialization failure)

Please help if there is any jar needs to be added in the classpath

Stack trace: !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 2 2011-10-24 14:50:47.258 !MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.ui.workbench". !STACK 0 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager (initialization failure) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:140)

Septuagint

Answer 1

Don't connect to clearcase on startup. In order to this, Go Preferences/Startup and shutdown/ Uncheck Clearcase Remote Client plugin, Clearquest plugin

Maryammaryann

Answer 2

There seems to be an issue logged about this. See the IBM site. You will need an account to see the details.

Also starting RAD with the -clean attribute might help ...

Participate

Answer 3

Also, one item I would mention if the above (turning off connections on start-up, and adding the clean option), is to CLOSE all open files, and CLOSE all open projects. Then shutdown RAD/Eclipse, and make sure you restart with the -clean option. That finally cleared it up for me. It would seem that there is something about restarting with open projects that causes this even with the start-up switches set to off and invoking clean.

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