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Hello, I've just recently bought Minecraft and haven't be able to run the launcher successfully yet. I've already emailed support but I figured I might try my luck here in case any of you knowledgeable folk know a way around this. Here is the error I'm getting upon starting the launcher:

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Nov 22, 2013 10:51:35 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_45'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'
Looking for update
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Didn't find an update in time.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Me!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Me!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Me!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Me!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Got reply in: 1693ms
No update found.
Cleaning up C:\Users\Me!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.
FATAL ERROR: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<init>(PropertiesUtil.java:71)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<clinit>(PropertiesUtil.java:31)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:48)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:44)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher.<clinit>(Launcher.java:58)
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 net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.startLauncher(Bootstrap.java:240)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:124)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ProviderUtil.<clinit>(ProviderUtil.java:70)
... 12 more

Please fix the error and restart.

Any idea what the issue might be, or how I can get around this?
Thanks in advance for any response

That fixed the problem! Thank you so much

Here's an amusing cat video for your troubles:

Thats happending whit me alsoBootstrap (v5)
Current time is Mar 24, 2014 9:48:18 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 8'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.2'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_51'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'

Looking for update
Didn't find an update in time.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate found
Recognized exception: the likely cause is a set of broken/missing root-certificates. Check your java install and perhaps reinstall it.
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Cleaning up C:\Users\Alexander\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.Help Please