Pentaho spoon is not starting

Question

I'm just trying to open the GUI interface, but it is not opening and without any reason, any error message. Any Idea?

C:\software\data-integration>Spoon.bat
DEBUG: Using JAVA_HOME
DEBUG: _PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_152
DEBUG: _PENTAHO_JAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_152\bin\javaw.exe

C:\software\data-integration>start "Spoon" "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_152\bin\javaw.exe"  "-Xms1024m" "-Xmx1024m" "-XX:MaxPermSize=256m" "-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2" "-Djava.library.path=libswt\win64" "-DKETTLE_HOME=C:\software\data-integration\" "-DKETTLE_REPOSITORY=" "-DKETTLE_USER=" "-DKETTLE_PASSWORD=" "-DKETTLE_PLUGIN_PACKAGES=" "-DKETTLE_LOG_SIZE_LIMIT=" "-DKETTLE_JNDI_ROOT=" -jar launcher\pentaho-application-launcher-8.0.0.0-28.jar -lib ..\libswt\win64

Answer 1

I was having the same issue, what I did was add a variable called PENTAHO_DI_JAVA_OPTIONS and in the value field put -Xms1024m. It worked for me.

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Hope it helps.

Answer 2

1. In the hidden directory C:\Users\.kettle, delete the file called db-cache-xxx. Do not touch to the kettle.property, repository.xml, shared.xml if you did define some connections or custom setup.

2. Remove unused plugins. Copy the folder named plugins elsewhere. Try to see if spoon launch quicker. Then copy back the plugins (=folders), you need one by one.

3. Be patient. Sometimes your OS needs quite a bit of time to find the required memory space. Windows did not think it was important to give you feedback of what was happening in the background.