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hello, i need help with the mincraft launcher . this piece of ­ing garbage cant even load the launcher correctly.excuse my french .











here is the error code:



Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Apr 24, 2014 3:24:01 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
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 1485ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.
FATAL ERROR: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Unknown constant tag 97 in class file com/sun/org/apache/xerces/internal/impl/XMLErrorReporter
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XIncludeAwareParserConfiguration.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XIncludeAwareParserConfiguration.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.setFeature(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.XMLConfiguration.enableXInclude(XMLConfiguration.java:119)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.XMLConfiguration.newDocumentBuilder(XMLConfiguration.java:97)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.XMLConfiguration.<init>(XMLConfiguration.java:146)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.XMLConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(XMLConfigurationFactory.java:40)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory$Factory.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:446)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory$Factory.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:420)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:377)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:149)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:85)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:34)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:387)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:322)
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)


Please fix the error and restart.