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Hey everyone,

I have minecraft loaded in the main administrator account on my computer here, but I wanted it installed on a new user I've created instead.

I created this new user on windows specifically to move minecraft over to the new user. I tried installing it right away by downloading it from minecraft.net and it was giving me this in the launcher:

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:59)
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.



So that's my problem. I made the new user an administrator to try to fix it, I uninstalled it from the main user and tried to install it in the new user, I removed java from the computer and reinstalled it.... nothing is working.

I even tried installing minecraft on the main user again to see if it was a problem with the hardware in the computer (even though there was no problem playing it on the main user and I didn't think hardware was a problem). It installed and plays fine on that user.

For some reason or another it does not want to install on this second user account.

This all would have been avoided if I could use minecraft on the second user account since it was installed on the first account, but I couldn't locate it on the new user account while it was installed on the main one.

Any way to fix this error?

Thanks in advance!

I even tried going into the main user account, into the .minecraft folder and copying and pasting it all to the new user .minecraft folder. Still wont run.

Quote from DaddyMac

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Hi,

We need the entire log.

Quote from Extreme_Heat

Hi,

We need the entire log.

K here it is.



Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Feb 28, 2014 8:13:50 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_51'
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
Got reply in: 306ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Carson!\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:59)
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.





There it is.

One thing to note is that it pauses for about 4 or 5 seconds at the

"Unpacking C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Carson!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack"

stage. In between those two, it takes the pause.

Thanks!

Quote from DaddyMac

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Hi,

Having exclamation marks or other special characters in your Windows username can break Java, which in turn breaks Minecraft. To fix this issue, either create a new Windows account without any special characters (only A-Z and 0-9), or change the working directory of the launcher.

See http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/special-characters/ for more information on working around this problem.

Quote from Extreme_Heat

Hi,

Having exclamation marks or other special characters in your Windows username can break Java, which in turn breaks Minecraft. To fix this issue, either create a new Windows account without any special characters (only A-Z and 0-9), or change the working directory of the launcher.

See http://hopper.minecr...ial-characters/ for more information on working around this problem.

Thanks so much! I deleted that user and made a new one without the "!"

Now I can load minecraft and all is well.

Much appreciated!