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This is what i get when it starts. it just black screens and then this error shows up.
Fresh install and java is up to date no mods



Minecraft has crashed!
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Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem; Failed to start game
This error has been saved to /Users/johnathonlarrance/Library/Application Support/minecraft/crash-reports/crash-2012-11-11_20.17.51-client.txt for your convenience. Please include a copy of this file if you report this crash to anyone.



--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT d6639d47 --------
Generated 11/11/12 8:17 PM

- Minecraft Version: 1.4.2
- Operating System: Mac OS X (x86_64) version 10.8
- Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 41772272 bytes (39 MB) / 78577664 bytes (74 MB) up to 1166999552 bytes (1112 MB)
- JVM Flags: 0 total;
- AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
- LWJGL: 2.4.2
- OpenGL: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Is Modded: Probably not
- Type: Client
- Texture Pack: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
- Vec3 Pool Size: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]


org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not get the JAWT interface
at org.lwjgl.opengl.AWTSurfaceLock.lockAndInitHandle(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.AWTSurfaceLock.access$100(AWTSurfaceLock.java:49)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.AWTSurfaceLock$1.run(AWTSurfaceLock.java:89)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.AWTSurfaceLock.privilegedLockAndInitHandle(AWTSurfaceLock.java:86)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.AWTSurfaceLock.lockAndGetHandle(AWTSurfaceLock.java:64)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXCanvasPeerInfo.initHandle(MacOSXCanvasPeerInfo.java:53)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXDisplayPeerInfo.doLockAndInitHandle(MacOSXDisplayPeerInfo.java:56)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.PeerInfo.lockAndGetHandle(PeerInfo.java:85)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXContextImplementation.create(MacOSXContextImplementation.java:47)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Context.<init>(Context.java:120)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:858)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:232)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
--- END ERROR REPORT 165f2b34 ----------

thanks that worked