[Joachim Schaaf]

Hi Forum,

I got a weird error when installing MyEclipse 5.0GA on my Suse 9.3 Linux system:

Stack Trace:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Properties.java:492)
at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:331)
at com.zerog.common.java.util.PropertiesUtil.loadProperties(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.<init>(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA8113)

The problem was my PROMPT environment setting:

(from /tmp/env.properties.xxx):

lax.nl.env.exact_case.PROMPT_COMMAND=PS1=”\u@\h:> “;echo -ne “\033]2; `pwd` \007”
lax.nl.env.prompt_command=PS1=”\u@\h:> “;echo -ne “\033]2; `pwd` \007”
lax.nl.env.PROMPT_COMMAND=PS1=”\u@\h:> “;echo -ne “\033]2; `pwd` \007”

After unsetting the annoying shell variables, the installer starts.

[Riyad Kalla]

Thank you for following up with your findings for other users.

[Jesse Charbneau]

I was having this issue with Ubuntu/Debian, and removing my bashrc (temporarily), restarting the xterm and then re-running the installer corrected the issue for me.

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