Fatal error initializing plugin org.jetbrains.android

Question

I get the error int the title in IntelliJ IDEA Version 2017.3.5 when I try to create a new empty project (or any other kind of project). What I have done so far is:

• download the community version (without jdk) from here https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/download-thanks.html?platform=linuxWithoutJDK&code=IIC

• Move that to my home folder, extract it, follow the instructions in the Install-Linux-tar.txt

• Open the IDE, select empty project, name it, and press finish

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS. I tried deleting the Andriod folder in the plugins folder, but that achieved nothing.

Here is the text from the idea.log file:

2018-03-17 16:15:53,986 [ 0] INFO -

com.intellij.idea.Main - ------------------------------------------------------ IDE STARTED ------------------------------------------------------ 2018-03-17 16:15:53,993 [ 7] INFO - #com.intellij.util.ui.JBUI - User

scale factor: 1.0 2018-03-17 16:15:53,993 [ 7] INFO -

com.intellij.util.ui.JBUI - System scale factor: 1.25 (IDE-managed HiDPI) 2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [ 18] INFO -

com.intellij.idea.Main - IDE: IntelliJ IDEA (build #IC-173.4674.33, 05 Mar 2018 14:53) 2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [ 18] INFO -

com.intellij.idea.Main - OS: Linux (4.13.0-37-generic, amd64) 2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [ 18] INFO -

com.intellij.idea.Main - JRE: 9.0.1+11 (Oracle Corporation) 2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [ 18] INFO -

com.intellij.idea.Main - JVM: 9.0.1+11 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM) 2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [ 18] INFO -

com.intellij.idea.Main - JVM Args: -Xbootclasspath/a:/home/max/intelij/idea-IC-173.4674.33/lib/boot.jar -Xms128m -Xmx750m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=240m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50 -ea -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dsun.java2d.renderer=sun.java2d.marlin.MarlinRenderingEngine -XX:ErrorFile=/home/max/java_error_in_IDEA_%p.log -XX:HeapDumpPath=/home/max/java_error_in_IDEA.hprof -Didea.paths.selector=IdeaIC2017.3 -Djb.vmOptionsFile=/home/max/intelij/idea-IC-173.4674.33/bin/idea64.vmoptions

-Didea.platform.prefix=Idea -Didea.jre.check=true 2018-03-17 16:15:54,005 [ 19] INFO - #com.intellij.idea.Main - ForkJoinPool.commonPool: java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool@279c624e[Running, parallelism = 3, size = 0, active = 0, running = 0, steals = 0, tasks = 0, submissions = 0] 2018-03-17 16:15:54,005 [ 19] INFO - #com.intellij.idea.Main - JNU charset: UTF-8 2018-03-17 16:15:54,021 [ 35] INFO - #com.intellij.idea.Main - JNA library (64-bit) loaded in 16 ms 2018-03-17 16:15:54,169 [ 183] INFO - llij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil - cannot initialize java.lang.ClassCastException: java.base/jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe cannot be cast to jdk.unsupported/sun.misc.Unsafe at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil$Xlib.getInstance(X11UiUtil.java:88) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil$Xlib.access$400(X11UiUtil.java:55) at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil.(X11UiUtil.java:238) at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.patchSystem(IdeaApplication.java:170) at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.(IdeaApplication.java:91) at com.intellij.idea.MainImpl$1.lambda$start$1(MainImpl.java:45) at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:764) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:717) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:711) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:734) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:199) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90) 2018-03-17 16:15:54,171 [ 185] INFO - .intellij.idea.IdeaApplication - WM detected: null 2018-03-17 16:15:54,589 [ 603] INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Cannot find optional descriptor duplicates-groovy.xml 2018-03-17 16:15:55,173 [ 1187] INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - 35 plugins initialized in 745 ms 2018-03-17 16:15:55,174 [ 1188]
INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Loaded bundled plugins: Android Support (10.2.3), Ant Support (1.0), Bytecode Viewer (0.1), CVS Integration (11), Copyright (8.1), Coverage (173.4674.33), Eclipse Integration (3.0), EditorConfig (173.4674.33), Git Integration (8.1), GitHub (173.4674.33), Gradle (173.4674.33), Groovy (9.0), I18n for Java (173.4674.33), IDEA CORE (173.4674.33), IntelliLang (8.0), JUnit (1.0), Java Bytecode Decompiler (173.4674.33), Java Stream Debugger (173.4674.33), JavaFX (1.0), Kotlin (1.2.10-release-IJ2017.3-1), Maven Integration (173.4674.33), Mercurial Integration (10.0), Plugin DevKit (1.0), Properties Support (173.4674.33), Settings Repository (173.4674.33), Subversion Integration (1.1), Task Management (1.0), Terminal (0.1), TestNG-J (8.0), UI Designer (173.4674.33), XPathView + XSLT Support (4), XSLT-Debugger (1.4), YAML (173.4674.33) 2018-03-17 16:15:55,175 [ 1189] INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Loaded custom plugins: IDE Features Trainer (0.8.59), IdeaVim (0.49) 2018-03-17 16:15:56,069 [ 2083] INFO - ellij.util.io.PagedFileStorage - lower=100; upper=500; buffer=10; max=705 2018-03-17 16:15:56,111 [ 2125] INFO - pl.local.NativeFileWatcherImpl - Starting file watcher: /home/max/intelij/idea-IC-173.4674.33/bin/fsnotifier64 2018-03-17 16:15:56,127 [ 2141] INFO - pl.local.NativeFileWatcherImpl - Native file watcher is operational. 2018-03-17 16:15:57,150 [ 3164] INFO - .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading com.intellij.ide.ui.OptionsTopHitProvider$Activity@50339df6 2018-03-17 16:15:57,313 [ 3327] INFO - til.net.ssl.CertificateManager - Default SSL context initialized 2018-03-17 16:15:57,357 [ 3371] INFO - rains.ide.BuiltInServerManager - built-in server started, port 63342 2018-03-17 16:15:57,418 [ 3432] INFO - gs.impl.UpdateCheckerComponent - channel: release 2018-03-17 16:15:57,735 [ 3749] INFO - il.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl - Index exts enumerated:236 2018-03-17 16:15:57,747 [ 3761] INFO - il.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl - Index scheduled:11 2018-03-17 16:15:57,788 [ 3802] INFO - tellij.psi.stubs.StubIndexImpl - All stub exts enumerated:26 2018-03-17 16:15:57,789 [ 3803] INFO - tellij.psi.stubs.StubIndexImpl - stub exts update scheduled:0 2018-03-17 16:15:58,394 [ 4408] INFO - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - 87 application components initialized in 3970ms 2018-03-17 16:15:58,422 [ 4436] INFO - .intellij.idea.IdeaApplication - App initialization took 5675 ms 2018-03-17 16:15:59,018 [ 5032] INFO - pl$FileIndexDataInitialization - Initialization done:1274 2018-03-17 16:15:59,086 [ 5100] INFO - exImpl$StubIndexInitialization - Initialization done:67 2018-03-17 16:15:59,433 [ 5447] INFO - com.intellij.ide.ui.UISettings - Loaded: fontSize=12, fontScale=1.0; restored: fontSize=15, fontScale=1.25 2018-03-17 16:15:59,435 [
5449] INFO - com.intellij.ide.ui.UISettings - Loaded: fontSize=15, fontScale=1.25; restored: fontSize=15, fontScale=1.25 2018-03-17 16:16:00,333 [ 6347] INFO - ellij.project.impl.ProjectImpl - 20 project components initialized in 494 ms 2018-03-17 16:16:00,490 [
6504] INFO - j.ide.plugins.RepositoryHelper - using cached plugin list (updated at 3/17/18, 2:57 PM) 2018-03-17 16:16:01,251 [ 7265] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule$SchemaModuleVersion.(SchemaModule.java:156) at com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule.(SchemaModule.java:75) at com.android.sdklib.repository.AndroidSdkHandler.(AndroidSdkHandler.java:81) at com.android.tools.idea.sdk.AndroidSdks.tryToChooseSdkHandler(AndroidSdks.java:153) at com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.getRepoManager(SdkComponentSource.java:94) at com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.initIfNecessary(SdkComponentSource.java:65) at com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.getComponents(SdkComponentSource.java:141) at com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.getAvailableVersions(SdkComponentSource.java:122) at com.intellij.openapi.updateSettings.impl.UpdateChecker.updateExternal(UpdateChecker.kt:297) at com.intellij.openapi.updateSettings.impl.UpdateChecker.doUpdateAndShowResult(UpdateChecker.kt:140) at com.intellij.openapi.updateSettings.impl.UpdateChecker$updateAndShowResult$1.run(UpdateChecker.kt:89) at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$1.run(ApplicationImpl.java:315) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:514) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema PluginClassLoader[org.jetbrains.android, 10.2.3] com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader@6a0da322 at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:63) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496) ... 17 more 2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [ 7270] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3.5 Build

IC-173.4674.33 2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [ 7270] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - JDK: 9.0.1 2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [

7270] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [ 7270] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Vendor: Oracle Corporation 2018-03-17 16:16:01,259 [ 7273] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - OS: Linux 2018-03-17 16:16:01,259 [ 7273] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Last Action:
2018-03-17 16:16:01,683 [ 7697] INFO - .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionPreloader@61017684 2018-03-17 16:16:04,088 [ 10102] INFO - .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading com.intellij.ide.ui.search.SearchableOptionPreloader@57e90c42 2018-03-17 16:16:04,284 [ 10298] INFO - .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading com.intellij.codeInsight.completion.CompletionPreloader@576a8991 2018-03-17 16:16:06,654 [ 12668] INFO - roject.impl.ProjectManagerImpl - Fatal error initializing plugin org.jetbrains.android com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManager$StartupAbortedException: Fatal error initializing plugin org.jetbrains.android at com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManager.handleComponentError(PluginManager.java:271) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.PlatformComponentManagerImpl.handleInitComponentError(PlatformComponentManagerImpl.java:43) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.registerComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:404) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.init(ComponentManagerImpl.java:96) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.init(ComponentManagerImpl.java:90) at com.intellij.openapi.project.impl.ProjectImpl.init(ProjectImpl.java:284) at com.intellij.openapi.project.impl.ProjectManagerImpl.initProject(ProjectManagerImpl.java:289) at com.intellij.openapi.project.impl.ProjectManagerImpl.newProject(ProjectManagerImpl.java:206) at com.intellij.openapi.project.ex.ProjectManagerEx.createProject(ProjectManagerEx.java:74) at com.intellij.ide.util.projectWizard.ProjectBuilder.createProject(ProjectBuilder.java:77) at com.intellij.ide.impl.NewProjectUtil.doCreate(NewProjectUtil.java:110) at com.intellij.ide.impl.NewProjectUtil.createFromWizard(NewProjectUtil.java:76) at com.intellij.ide.impl.NewProjectUtil.createNewProject(NewProjectUtil.java:71) at com.intellij.ide.actions.NewProjectAction.actionPerformed(NewProjectAction.java:36) at com.intellij.ui.components.labels.ActionLink$1.linkSelected(ActionLink.java:67) at com.intellij.ui.components.labels.LinkLabel.doClick(LinkLabel.java:156) at com.intellij.ui.components.labels.ActionLink.doClick(ActionLink.java:80) at com.intellij.ui.components.labels.LinkLabel$MyMouseHandler.mouseReleased(LinkLabel.java:352) at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6578) at java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3343) at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6343) at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2259) at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4961) at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2317) at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4793) at java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4904) at java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4539) at java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4480) at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2303) at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2758) at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4793) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:766) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:717) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:711) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89) at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:99) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:739) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:737) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:736) at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:822) at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:646) at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:366) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:199) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101) at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90) Caused by: com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException [Plugin: org.jetbrains.android] ... 52 more Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:375) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.registerComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:385) ... 49 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException PluginClassLoader[org.jetbrains.android, 10.2.3] com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader@6a0da322 at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:63) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496) ... 52 more 2018-03-17 16:16:08,039 [ 14053] INFO - j.ide.ui.OptionsTopHitProvider - 1123 ms spent to cache options in application

Answer 1

Choose "Configure"-->"Plugins", and deselect "Android Support", restart the IDE and then you can create the project successfully.