RAD sporadic errors - Could not initialize com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager

Question

I am using RAD version 7.5.4 and whenever I am opening the IDE, the following error pops up.

An error has occurred. See error log for more details. com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager (initialization failure)

Please help if there is any jar needs to be added in the classpath

Stack trace: !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 2 2011-10-24 14:50:47.258 !MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.ui.workbench". !STACK 0 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager (initialization failure) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:140)

Answer 1

Don't connect to clearcase on startup. In order to this, Go Preferences/Startup and shutdown/ Uncheck Clearcase Remote Client plugin, Clearquest plugin