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when i start the launcher, the console opens, starts doing its thing and then i get this and doesnt go any further

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Sep 4, 2013 10:31:41 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_25'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'

Looking for update
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 401ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Jesse\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to start: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.startLauncher(Bootstrap.java:242)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:124)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)


Please fix the error and restart.


any help would be awesome

i got it working, for some reason my theme was not letting minecraft work for what ever reason