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Okay, I've been at this problem for about 4 hours now and can't figure out how to get past it. I have a legal account, downloaded the program, opened my firewall and antivirus for it, my Java is up-to-date, my windows theme isn't modified- and I still get this message!


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.



I looked into Bootstrap errors and I've tried everything I can possibly think of to fix this issue.

Can anyone help me past this? Thank you so much.

You've not posted the entire error log. Please post the whole thing as it may contain information relevant to resolving the issue.

Quote from stupid3700

You've not posted the entire error log. Please post the whole thing as it may contain information relevant to resolving the issue.

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Dec 6, 2013 11:56:24 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_45'
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: 760ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Tracy!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Tracy!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Tracy!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Tracy!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Tracy!\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.


^^^^^That's all of it.^^^^^

Quote from A_Herb

Does your windows user name have any special characters in it, such as exclamation marks or hiragana?

It had an exclamation point, yes, but I changed it, and it's like my laptop doesn't think I did.

You can change the name on an account, but that doesn't change the directories on disk, which will still have the original user name.

While there are methods on the web to patch the registry and rename the directory on disk, the safest thing is to create a brand new user profile and use that.

Quote from gerbil

You can change the name on an account, but that doesn't change the directories on disk, which will still have the original user name.

While there are methods on the web to patch the registry and rename the directory on disk, the safest thing is to create a brand new user profile and use that.

I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks!

Works perfectly now. Thank you again!