Can't launch Ghidra on Windows

Java JRE and JDK are both installed and PATH environment variable is configured properly.

When I run the ghidraRun.bat file a terminal windows opens and immediately closes afterwards. In task manager I can see a OpenJDK Platform binary process being created each time I run the ghidraRun.bat file but Ghidra doesn’t launch.

when I run support/ghidraDebug.bat I get the following output and then the terminal just stalls and does nothing:

INFO  Using log config file: jar:file:/C:/Users/Stefan/Ghidra/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/lib/Generic.jar!/generic.log4j.xml (LoggingInitialization)
INFO  Using log file: C:\Users\Stefan\.ghidra\.ghidra-9.0\application.log (LoggingInitialization)
INFO  Loading user preferences: C:\Users\Stefan\.ghidra\.ghidra-9.0\preferences (Preferences)

[choket]

Looks like my third monitors was the problem. I’m running a triple monitor setup, and my third monitor is actually a TV screen. I’ve had some issues previously where apps would launch on that monitor but not be displayed initially. I could see that they had been launched because of the icon in the taskbar and could then move them to another monitor, and back to the TV which would make them display properly.

The issue with Ghidra is that the initial EULA doesn’t create an icon in the taskbar so I didn’t know that it had been launched but just not displayed properly. Disconnecting my third monitor made the EULA show up on one of my regular monitors and everything works as expected from there 😃

[ryanmkurtz]

Since pythonRun seems to be working, it’s probably GUI related. Are you remote desktopped in to your Windows machine? Is there anything weird about your graphic setup?