Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows

Gaurav Singh picture Gaurav Singh · May 24, 2012 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I was working on Eclipse RCP and I got this error


A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x000007fef54b88ee, pid=3192, tid=5324

JRE version: 7.0_02-b13 Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (22.0-b10 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops) Problematic frame: C [jscript9.dll+0x888ee]

Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows

An error report file with more information is saved as: F:\Eclipse RCP\hs_err_pid3192.log

If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code. See problematic frame for where to report the bug.

Answer

mkalkov picture mkalkov · Apr 9, 2014

Just for the record, this was likely caused by Windows UAC, see java.com's description.