Strange strings in cdk's PATH environmental variable ---------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-24881 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-24881 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: cdk Affects Versions: 4.5.1.AM1 Reporter: Martin Malina Assignee: Rob Stryker Hardy was trying to test cdk in eclipse and got an error when starting cdk: {code} org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 5; columnNumber: 67; Character reference "&#7" is an invalid XML character. occurred while reading launch configuration file: /Volumes/Gram/Hardy/tmp/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.debug.core/.launches/Container Development Environment 3.launch. Character reference "&#7" is an invalid XML character. {code} It turns out that his PATH env var for cdk is this (from JBIDE-24222): {code} ]1337;RemoteHost=hardy@nineveh.lan]1337;CurrentDir=/Volumes/Gram/Hardy/tmp/devstudio/studio/devstudio.app/Contents/MacOS]1337;ShellIntegrationVersion=3;shell=bash/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p648/bin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p648@global/bin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p648/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/hardy/work/developer-platform/openshift/oc/1.3.1:/opt/java/wildfly/bin:/opt/java/tomcat/bin:/opt/java/ant/bin:/opt/java/maven/bin:/opt/java/scala/bin:/opt/java/gradle/bin:/bin:/Applications/Development/Vagrant/bin:/Users/hardy/work/developer-platform/cdk-3/go/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/hardy/bin:/opt/openshift:/opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin:/Applications/Internet/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/Dev/Editor/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p648/bin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p648@global/bin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p648/bin:/Users/hardy/work/developer-platform/openshift/oc/1.3.1:/opt/java/wildfly/bin:/opt/java/tomcat/bin:/opt/java/ant/bin:/opt/java/maven/bin:/opt/java/scala/bin:/opt/java/gradle/bin:/Applications/Development/Vagrant/bin:/Users/hardy/work/developer-platform/cdk-3/go/bin:/Users/hardy/bin:/opt/openshift:/opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin:/Applications/Internet/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/Dev/Editor/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/bin:/Users/hardy/.rvm/bin {code} This was in devstudio nightly. So I checked too and I have a similar problem. In my case I have this in the PATH variable in launch config: {code} Restored session: Tue Aug 22 15:34:26 CEST 2017 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin/bin Saving session... ...saving history... ...completed.:/Users/rasp/jbossqa/cdk/cdk-3.1.0 {code} So something in the way you get the PATH is wrong.