Bug #70538 External Component Has Thrown an Exception.
Submitted: 6 Oct 2013 21:18 Modified: 24 Mar 2014 16:04
Reporter: Steve Burrus Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:6.0.9 OS:Windows (Win 7 Home Premium)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[6 Oct 2013 21:18] Steve Burrus
Description:
When I THINK thast I have gotten the MYSQL Workbench 6 installed I get this error
"External Component Has Thrown an Exception." I don't why I am getting this error at all! Can you please help me with this? 

How to repeat:
just simply by trying to install the mysql workbench 6.0.
[7 Oct 2013 12:38] MySQL Verification Team
Please check if workaround mentioned in http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=70262 (see workaround renaming the folder) applies to your case. Thanks.
[7 Oct 2013 15:08] Steve Burrus
can Carlos Teevin please amplify on jhow he got the Workbench 6.0 to start up after installing it? I don't quite understand yet what his workaround entailed.
[7 Oct 2013 15:58] MySQL Verification Team
He did the below:

 [6 Sep 16:20] Carlos Teevin

Ok guys, no need to answer my post, the problem is fixed, I just renamed the folder 
"C:\Users\yourUsername\AppData\Roaming\MySQL\Workbench" that was previously created by an earlier used version (recommended on previous post).
[7 Oct 2013 16:55] Steve Burrus
well I just mnow tried to install the mysql workbench [and all of the other components] into the path which carlos teevin said worked for him : "C\users\username\appdata\roaming\mysql\workbench" but it utterly failed for me! I mainly have a problem with configuring the mysql server 5.7. Can someone please try to help me again?
[15 Oct 2013 15:38] Ethan Mantel
I'm having this issue as well. Completely uninstalled all programs and still getting the pop up box immediately on opening Workbench.
[9 Nov 2013 13:58] Ermal Dedej
I'm, have the same issue after uninstalling and installing the latest version of MySQL workbench. Any suggestion how to fix this issue.
[12 Nov 2013 22:57] MySQL Verification Team
Please try version 6.0.8. Thanks.
[12 Nov 2013 23:36] Steve Burrus
but don't you see that my problem is that when I am in the process of installing mysql 5.6 or workbench 6 right after it says it is configuring the mysql installer everything just flat disappears!! I get a really serious crash. Can you please help me with that?
[14 Nov 2013 18:09] Sukhraj Sumal
I have an issue when opening MySQL work bench, as there is a Exception Thrown error once it has been opened.

How would I resolve this issue?
[27 Nov 2013 10:38] Chuck Wigdahl
External component has thrown an exception
[17 Feb 2014 16:52] MySQL Verification Team
Please try version 6.0.9. Thanks.
[17 Feb 2014 21:47] Steve Burrus
Well mI tried to install W.B. 6.0.9 but I still get the same old error as before! It indicated that I have the Maria database, version 10 someting, linked to workbench and that it wants mysql 5.5,  5.6 or 5.7 [to be linked to]. How do I go about correcting this problem short of deleting maria or do I really have to do that to get workbench working properly for me?
[24 Feb 2014 16:04] MySQL Verification Team
Please try with a community-MySQL server if works then open a bug report with
MariaDB. Thanks.
[25 Mar 2014 1:00] Bugs System
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