Unable to locate value meta plugin of type (ID)

With what will have pits Ah, gold met kettle of a pit, error prompts as follows

 ./Ten/ -  the: $: the-Spoon-log level: Debug ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-error (version6.1.0.1-196, build1  from  .-Geneva- - 12.08. theby Buildguy): Error starting Spoon shell ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-error (version6.1.0.1-196, build1  from  .-Geneva- - 12.08. theby Buildguy): java.lang.RuntimeException:Unable to create the database cache: ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-GENERAL-COULDN't read the database cache ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleFileException: ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-: Unable to read row metadata frominput Stream ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-unable to locate value meta plugin of type (ID)131072 ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-unable to locate value meta plugin of type (ID)131072 ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleFileException: ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-: Unable to read row metadata frominput Stream ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-unable to locate value meta plugin of type (ID)131072 ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-unable to locate value meta plugin of type (ID)131072 ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General- ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at org.pentaho.di.core.DBCache.getInstance (Dbcache.java:247) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.loadSettings (Spoon.java:7225) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.init (Spoon.java:787) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.createContents (Spoon.java:9235) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create (Window.java:426) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open (Window.java:785) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.start (Spoon.java:9266) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.main (Spoon.java:662) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-At sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (Nativemethodaccessorimpl.java: +) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (Delegatingmethodaccessorimpl.java: +) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:483) ./Ten/ -  the: $:Ten-General-at Org.pentaho.commons.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java: the) Stoppingjava HotSpot (TM) --bit Server VM warning:ignoring option maxpermsize=256m; Support is removedinch 8.0

Workaround:

To fix the issue, you need to delete the Db.cache file.

On my Windows computer, it ' s located under C:\Users\patlaf\.kettle\db.cache-5.0.1-stable .

Then you can start Spoon again!

References:

• Http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?96065-Spoon-Unable-to-create-the-database-cache
• Http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?166068-Unable-to-create-the-database-cache

Originating From: http://www.patlaf.com/pentaho-spoon-java-lang-runtimeexception-unable-to-create-the-database-cache/

Unable to locate value meta plugin of type (ID)