Can't open PLSQL Dev

[GregT]

I can't find any info on this which already exists. I've been running PLSQL dev fine for months on Win7. I had a hard crash today, and have not been able to start the app since. I've tried rebooting, upgrading to the latest version, deleting all user files in appdata\roaming, and I still cannot get it to start. The behavior I have is when double clicking the icon to run the program, I get he "hourglass" cursor icon confirming its doing something, then it turns back to normal cursor icon, and that is pretty much it. When viewing the "process" tab in task manager, the plsqldev process is listed, but there is no GUI, and it is not listed under "Applications".

I'm thinking it may be hanging on some corrupted file after the crash I had, are there any other directories I should try cleaning up, or any other advice to get this app to launch?

 

[GregT]

Ok, slight modification to this behavior. Everything above is experienced, however the application does eventually launch after about 10 minutes. Not sure why all of a sudden such a delay, but it is doing this consistently.

 

[dkortekaas]

Before the hard crash. Have you issued a print call. One of my co-workers experienced a simulair situatie. After he issued a print call, pl/sql dev. hanged. After he tried to restart the application, he don't get a gui. only the pl/sql proces in de proceslist in the taskmanager.

After deleting the printjob in de windows printserver the problem was solved.

In mine case, it seems like pl/sql dev. waits on a respond of the printserver. Maybe it is the same in your case.

 

[GregT]

Thanks for the info, I'm not sure what was going on, but it's working launching normal again today. It was always exactly 10 minutes from clicking to the GUI displaying, so it must have been waiting on something before launching that would eventually timeout.