


Please be aware that default locations have changed in 2020.1 release). You can bisect the plug-ins to find the offending one and remove only that plug-in, keeping the working plug-ins. Delete the third-party plug-ins directory ( in the user's home directory, depends on the OS and IDE version.If you get " : Address already in use: bind" exception, please refer to IDEA-238995 for the workaround.Please try the following steps one by one until the issue is resolved: It may be hard to guess the root case from the exception stacktrace. There are multiple possible causes for this issue: broken or incompatible plug-in, corrupted IDE installation files, failed patch update, broken caches or damaged configuration.

IDE shows the Start Failed dialog with the exception stacktrace and the following text:
