title: Fatal error initializing plugin org.jetbrains.android
body: <p>I get the error int the title in IntelliJ IDEA Version 2017.3.5 when I try to create a new empty project (or any other kind of project). 
  What I have done so far is:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>download the community version (without jdk) from here
  <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/download-thanks.html?platform=linuxWithoutJDK&amp;code=IIC" rel="noreferrer">https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/download-thanks.html?platform=linuxWithoutJDK&amp;code=IIC</a></p></li>
  <li><p>Move that to my home folder, extract it, follow the instructions
  in the Install-Linux-tar.txt</p></li>
  <li>Open the IDE, select empty project, name it, and press finish</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I am running Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS. I tried deleting the Andriod folder in the plugins folder, but that achieved nothing. </p>
  
  <p>Here is the text from the idea.log file: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>2018-03-17 16:15:53,986 [      0]   INFO -       </p>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.idea.Main - ------------------------------------------------------ IDE STARTED ------------------------------------------------------  2018-03-17 16:15:53,993 [      7]   INFO -     #com.intellij.util.ui.JBUI - User</h1>
    
    <p>scale factor: 1.0  2018-03-17 16:15:53,993 [      7]   INFO -    </p>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.util.ui.JBUI - System scale factor: 1.25 (IDE-managed HiDPI)  2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [     18]   INFO -</h1>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.idea.Main - IDE: IntelliJ IDEA (build #IC-173.4674.33, 05 Mar 2018 14:53)  2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [     18]   INFO -</h1>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.idea.Main - OS: Linux (4.13.0-37-generic, amd64)  2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [     18]   INFO -</h1>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.idea.Main - JRE: 9.0.1+11 (Oracle Corporation)  2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [     18]   INFO -</h1>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.idea.Main - JVM: 9.0.1+11 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM)  2018-03-17 16:15:54,004 [     18]   INFO -</h1>
    
    <h1>com.intellij.idea.Main - JVM Args: -Xbootclasspath/a:/home/max/intelij/idea-IC-173.4674.33/lib/boot.jar -Xms128m -Xmx750m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=240m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50 -ea -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dsun.java2d.renderer=sun.java2d.marlin.MarlinRenderingEngine -XX:ErrorFile=/home/max/java_error_in_IDEA_%p.log -XX:HeapDumpPath=/home/max/java_error_in_IDEA.hprof -Didea.paths.selector=IdeaIC2017.3 -Djb.vmOptionsFile=/home/max/intelij/idea-IC-173.4674.33/bin/idea64.vmoptions</h1>
    
    <p>-Didea.platform.prefix=Idea -Didea.jre.check=true  2018-03-17 16:15:54,005 [     19]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main -
    ForkJoinPool.commonPool:
    java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool@279c624e[Running, parallelism = 3,
    size = 0, active = 0, running = 0, steals = 0, tasks = 0, submissions
    = 0]  2018-03-17 16:15:54,005 [     19]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - JNU charset: UTF-8  2018-03-17 16:15:54,021 [     35]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - JNA library
    (64-bit) loaded in 16 ms  2018-03-17 16:15:54,169 [    183]   INFO -
    llij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil - cannot initialize 
    java.lang.ClassCastException: java.base/jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe
    cannot be cast to jdk.unsupported/sun.misc.Unsafe     at
    com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil$Xlib.getInstance(X11UiUtil.java:88)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil$Xlib.access$400(X11UiUtil.java:55)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.X11UiUtil.(X11UiUtil.java:238)
      at
    com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.patchSystem(IdeaApplication.java:170)
      at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.(IdeaApplication.java:91)
      at com.intellij.idea.MainImpl$1.lambda$start$1(MainImpl.java:45)    at
    java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:764)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:717)  at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:711)   at
    java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at
    java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:734)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:199)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)
    2018-03-17 16:15:54,171 [    185]   INFO -
    .intellij.idea.IdeaApplication - WM detected: null  2018-03-17
    16:15:54,589 [    603]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager -
    Cannot find optional descriptor duplicates-groovy.xml  2018-03-17
    16:15:55,173 [   1187]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - 35
    plugins initialized in 745 ms  2018-03-17 16:15:55,174 [   1188]<br>
    INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Loaded bundled plugins:
    Android Support (10.2.3), Ant Support (1.0), Bytecode Viewer (0.1),
    CVS Integration (11), Copyright (8.1), Coverage (173.4674.33), Eclipse
    Integration (3.0), EditorConfig (173.4674.33), Git Integration (8.1),
    GitHub (173.4674.33), Gradle (173.4674.33), Groovy (9.0), I18n for
    Java (173.4674.33), IDEA CORE (173.4674.33), IntelliLang (8.0), JUnit
    (1.0), Java Bytecode Decompiler (173.4674.33), Java Stream Debugger
    (173.4674.33), JavaFX (1.0), Kotlin (1.2.10-release-IJ2017.3-1), Maven
    Integration (173.4674.33), Mercurial Integration (10.0), Plugin DevKit
    (1.0), Properties Support (173.4674.33), Settings Repository
    (173.4674.33), Subversion Integration (1.1), Task Management (1.0),
    Terminal (0.1), TestNG-J (8.0), UI Designer (173.4674.33), XPathView +
    XSLT Support (4), XSLT-Debugger (1.4), YAML (173.4674.33)  2018-03-17
    16:15:55,175 [   1189]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager -
    Loaded custom plugins: IDE Features Trainer (0.8.59), IdeaVim (0.49) 
    2018-03-17 16:15:56,069 [   2083]   INFO -
    ellij.util.io.PagedFileStorage - lower=100; upper=500; buffer=10;
    max=705  2018-03-17 16:15:56,111 [   2125]   INFO -
    pl.local.NativeFileWatcherImpl - Starting file watcher:
    /home/max/intelij/idea-IC-173.4674.33/bin/fsnotifier64  2018-03-17
    16:15:56,127 [   2141]   INFO - pl.local.NativeFileWatcherImpl -
    Native file watcher is operational.  2018-03-17 16:15:57,150 [   3164]
    INFO - .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading
    com.intellij.ide.ui.OptionsTopHitProvider$Activity@50339df6 
    2018-03-17 16:15:57,313 [   3327]   INFO -
    til.net.ssl.CertificateManager - Default SSL context initialized 
    2018-03-17 16:15:57,357 [   3371]   INFO -
    rains.ide.BuiltInServerManager - built-in server started, port 63342 
    2018-03-17 16:15:57,418 [   3432]   INFO -
    gs.impl.UpdateCheckerComponent - channel: release  2018-03-17
    16:15:57,735 [   3749]   INFO - il.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl - Index
    exts enumerated:236  2018-03-17 16:15:57,747 [   3761]   INFO -
    il.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl - Index scheduled:11  2018-03-17
    16:15:57,788 [   3802]   INFO - tellij.psi.stubs.StubIndexImpl - All
    stub exts enumerated:26  2018-03-17 16:15:57,789 [   3803]   INFO -
    tellij.psi.stubs.StubIndexImpl - stub exts update scheduled:0 
    2018-03-17 16:15:58,394 [   4408]   INFO -
    plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - 87 application components initialized
    in 3970ms  2018-03-17 16:15:58,422 [   4436]   INFO -
    .intellij.idea.IdeaApplication - App initialization took 5675 ms 
    2018-03-17 16:15:59,018 [   5032]   INFO -
    pl$FileIndexDataInitialization - Initialization done:1274  2018-03-17
    16:15:59,086 [   5100]   INFO - exImpl$StubIndexInitialization -
    Initialization done:67  2018-03-17 16:15:59,433 [   5447]   INFO -
    com.intellij.ide.ui.UISettings - Loaded: fontSize=12, fontScale=1.0;
    restored: fontSize=15, fontScale=1.25  2018-03-17 16:15:59,435 [<br>
    5449]   INFO - com.intellij.ide.ui.UISettings - Loaded: fontSize=15,
    fontScale=1.25; restored: fontSize=15, fontScale=1.25  2018-03-17
    16:16:00,333 [   6347]   INFO - ellij.project.impl.ProjectImpl - 20
    project components initialized in 494 ms  2018-03-17 16:16:00,490 [<br>
    6504]   INFO - j.ide.plugins.RepositoryHelper - using cached plugin
    list (updated at 3/17/18, 2:57 PM)  2018-03-17 16:16:01,251 [   7265] 
    ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl -
    javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
    javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema   at
    com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule$SchemaModuleVersion.(SchemaModule.java:156)
      at
    com.android.repository.api.SchemaModule.(SchemaModule.java:75)
      at
    com.android.sdklib.repository.AndroidSdkHandler.(AndroidSdkHandler.java:81)
      at
    com.android.tools.idea.sdk.AndroidSdks.tryToChooseSdkHandler(AndroidSdks.java:153)
      at
    com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.getRepoManager(SdkComponentSource.java:94)
      at
    com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.initIfNecessary(SdkComponentSource.java:65)
      at
    com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.getComponents(SdkComponentSource.java:141)
      at
    com.android.tools.idea.updater.SdkComponentSource.getAvailableVersions(SdkComponentSource.java:122)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.updateSettings.impl.UpdateChecker.updateExternal(UpdateChecker.kt:297)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.updateSettings.impl.UpdateChecker.doUpdateAndShowResult(UpdateChecker.kt:140)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.updateSettings.impl.UpdateChecker$updateAndShowResult$1.run(UpdateChecker.kt:89)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$1.run(ApplicationImpl.java:315)
      at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:514)
      at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
      at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
      at
    java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
      at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) Caused by:
    java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema
    PluginClassLoader[org.jetbrains.android, 10.2.3]
    com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader@6a0da322    at
    com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:63)
      at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496)
      ... 17 more 2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [   7270]  ERROR -
    plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3.5  Build</p>
    
    <h1>IC-173.4674.33  2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [   7270]  ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - JDK: 9.0.1  2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [</h1>
    
    <p>7270]  ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - VM: Java HotSpot(TM)
    64-Bit Server VM  2018-03-17 16:16:01,256 [   7270]  ERROR -
    plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Vendor: Oracle Corporation 
    2018-03-17 16:16:01,259 [   7273]  ERROR -
    plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - OS: Linux  2018-03-17 16:16:01,259 [ 
    7273]  ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Last Action:<br>
    2018-03-17 16:16:01,683 [   7697]   INFO -
    .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading
    com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionPreloader@61017684 
    2018-03-17 16:16:04,088 [  10102]   INFO -
    .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading
    com.intellij.ide.ui.search.SearchableOptionPreloader@57e90c42 
    2018-03-17 16:16:04,284 [  10298]   INFO -
    .openapi.application.Preloader - Finished preloading
    com.intellij.codeInsight.completion.CompletionPreloader@576a8991 
    2018-03-17 16:16:06,654 [  12668]   INFO -
    roject.impl.ProjectManagerImpl - Fatal error initializing plugin
    org.jetbrains.android 
    com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManager$StartupAbortedException: Fatal
    error initializing plugin org.jetbrains.android   at
    com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManager.handleComponentError(PluginManager.java:271)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.PlatformComponentManagerImpl.handleInitComponentError(PlatformComponentManagerImpl.java:43)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.registerComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:404)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.init(ComponentManagerImpl.java:96)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.init(ComponentManagerImpl.java:90)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.project.impl.ProjectImpl.init(ProjectImpl.java:284)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.project.impl.ProjectManagerImpl.initProject(ProjectManagerImpl.java:289)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.project.impl.ProjectManagerImpl.newProject(ProjectManagerImpl.java:206)
      at
    com.intellij.openapi.project.ex.ProjectManagerEx.createProject(ProjectManagerEx.java:74)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.util.projectWizard.ProjectBuilder.createProject(ProjectBuilder.java:77)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.impl.NewProjectUtil.doCreate(NewProjectUtil.java:110)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.impl.NewProjectUtil.createFromWizard(NewProjectUtil.java:76)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.impl.NewProjectUtil.createNewProject(NewProjectUtil.java:71)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.actions.NewProjectAction.actionPerformed(NewProjectAction.java:36)
      at
    com.intellij.ui.components.labels.ActionLink$1.linkSelected(ActionLink.java:67)
      at
    com.intellij.ui.components.labels.LinkLabel.doClick(LinkLabel.java:156)
      at
    com.intellij.ui.components.labels.ActionLink.doClick(ActionLink.java:80)
      at
    com.intellij.ui.components.labels.LinkLabel$MyMouseHandler.mouseReleased(LinkLabel.java:352)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6578)
      at
    java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3343)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6343)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2259)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4961)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2317)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4793)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4904)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4539)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4480)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2303)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2758)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4793)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:766)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:717)  at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:711)   at
    java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at
    java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89)
      at
    java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:99)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:739)  at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:737)   at
    java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at
    java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:89)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:736)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:822)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:646)
      at
    com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:366)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:199)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
      at
    java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)
    Caused by: com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException:
    javax/xml/bind/JAXBException [Plugin: org.jetbrains.android]  ... 52
    more Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
    javax/xml/bind/JAXBException  at
    java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)     at
    java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:375)     at
    com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.registerComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:385)
      ... 49 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
    javax.xml.bind.JAXBException PluginClassLoader[org.jetbrains.android,
    10.2.3] com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader@6a0da322    at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:63)
      at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:496)
      ... 52 more 2018-03-17 16:16:08,039 [  14053]   INFO -
    j.ide.ui.OptionsTopHitProvider - 1123 ms spent to cache options in
    application</p>
  </blockquote>