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Came onto my girlfriends computer to install minecraft and when i click the minecraft exe i get this error. I have uninstalled and reinstalled java and restarted the computer with the same result.

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:47)
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.

Quote from LowSignal

Hi,

Can you post the entire error log?

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Jul 22, 2014 7:57:16 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 8.1'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.3'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_65'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'

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Renaming C:\Users\Jordei!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma.new to C:\Users\Jordei!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma
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Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Jordei!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Jordei!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Jordei!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Jordei!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Jordei!\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:47)
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.

Quote from LowSignal

Hi,

It seems that your user profile has a "!" in it, which breaks Java.

Please make a new user account without special characters, and also see this article for more information and how to solve the issue.