# Designer Launcher Failed Launch error occurred

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 29, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799 "2023-03-29T21:22:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rfolkes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@rfolkes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rfolkes)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799/1 "2023-03-29T21:22:15Z")

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I am connecting to a gateway on a VM through a VPN.  
I can connect to the gateway webpage and download Designer Launcher  
NOT using SSL on gateway  
Designer set to use 4gb of memory which is \< available memory on both machines  
I have deleted the Cache folder in user/.ignition/cache with same result.

Adding the gateway works but when I try to open gateway I get

DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2023/03/29 16:06:08]: Stopping multicast receiver service...  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2023/03/29 16:06:08]: Stopping localhost receiver service...  
INFO [DesignerLauncher] [2023/03/29 16:06:17]: Set initial logging level to DEBUG  
DEBUG [TrustStore] [2023/03/29 16:06:17]: Attempting to initialized with named type: jvm  
DEBUG [TrustStore] [2023/03/29 16:06:17]: Trust Store 'jvm' initialized.  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2023/03/29 16:06:18]: Starting localhost receiver service...  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2023/03/29 16:06:18]: Starting multicast receiver service...  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2023/03/29 16:06:18]: Multicast receiver service started.  
DEBUG [GatewayInfoRetrieverService] [2023/03/29 16:06:19]: Task has been called for gateway [http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)  
DEBUG [GatewayInfoRetrieverService] [2023/03/29 16:06:19]: Task has been called for gateway [http://localhost:8088](http://localhost:8088)  
INFO [GatewayConnect] [2023/03/29 16:06:21]: Attempting to connect to gateway [http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)...  
DEBUG [GatewayConnect] [2023/03/29 16:06:21]: checking state of gateway [http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)  
DEBUG [GatewayConnect] [2023/03/29 16:06:21]: gateway '[http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)' state: RUNNING  
INFO [GatewayCommUtil] [2023/03/29 16:06:23]: Downloading "[http://10.3.4.157:8088/system/launchbin/launchclient.jar](http://10.3.4.157:8088/system/launchbin/launchclient.jar)" (timeout=30)...  
ERROR [LaunchUtil] [2023/03/29 16:06:23]: Launch Error Occurred: Downloading of launchclient.jar failed, Launching will not occur  
com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.error.HttpResponseException

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799/2 "2023-03-29T21:37:54Z")

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Was there any more? It looks like the meat of the actual error wasn't included.

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**Author:** ![rfolkes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@rfolkes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rfolkes)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799/3 "2023-03-29T21:53:25Z")

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INFO [GatewayConnect] [2023/03/29 16:53:05]: Attempting to connect to gateway [http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)...  
DEBUG [GatewayConnect] [2023/03/29 16:53:05]: checking state of gateway [http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)  
DEBUG [GatewayConnect] [2023/03/29 16:53:05]: gateway '[http://10.3.4.157:8088](http://10.3.4.157:8088)' state: RUNNING  
INFO [GatewayCommUtil] [2023/03/29 16:53:07]: Downloading "[http://10.3.4.157:8088/system/launchbin/launchclient.jar](http://10.3.4.157:8088/system/launchbin/launchclient.jar)" (timeout=30)...  
ERROR [LaunchUtil] [2023/03/29 16:53:07]: Launch Error Occurred: Downloading of launchclient.jar failed, Launching will not occur  
com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.error.HttpResponseException  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.GatewayCommUtil.getGatewayConnection(GatewayCommUtil.java:203)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.GatewayCommUtil.getGatewayConnection(GatewayCommUtil.java:114)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.GatewayCommUtil.downloadFile(GatewayCommUtil.java:523)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.LaunchUtil.lambda$downloadLaunchClientJar$7(LaunchUtil.java:551)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.FileUtils.runResourceLockedAction(FileUtils.java:110)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.LaunchUtil.downloadLaunchClientJar(LaunchUtil.java:549)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.LaunchUtil.getLaunchClientJar(LaunchUtil.java:419)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.common.utils.LaunchUtil.launchApplication(LaunchUtil.java:67)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.designer.utils.DesignerLaunchUtil.verifyThenLaunch(DesignerLaunchUtil.java:74)  
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.launcher.designer.utils.DesignerLaunchUtil.lambda$launchApplication$2(DesignerLaunchUtil.java:32)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.CompositeEventHandler.dispatchBubblingEvent(CompositeEventHandler.java:86)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.EventHandlerManager.dispatchBubblingEvent(EventHandlerManager.java:234)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.EventHandlerManager.dispatchBubblingEvent(EventHandlerManager.java:191)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.BasicEventDispatcher.dispatchEvent(BasicEventDispatcher.java:58)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.EventDispatchChainImpl.dispatchEvent(EventDispatchChainImpl.java:114)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.EventUtil.fireEventImpl(EventUtil.java:74)  
at com.sun.javafx.event.EventUtil.fireEvent(EventUtil.java:54)  
at javafx.event.Event.fireEvent(Event.java:198)  
at javafx.concurrent.EventHelper.fireEvent(EventHelper.java:219)  
at javafx.concurrent.Service.fireEvent(Service.java:856)  
at javafx.concurrent.Service.lambda$new$4(Service.java:556)  
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper$SingleChange.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:181)  
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:80)  
at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.fireValueChangedEvent(ObjectPropertyBase.java:106)  
at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.markInvalid(ObjectPropertyBase.java:113)  
at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase$Listener.invalidated(ObjectPropertyBase.java:234)  
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper$SingleInvalidation.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:136)  
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:80)  
at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.fireValueChangedEvent(ObjectPropertyBase.java:106)  
at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.markInvalid(ObjectPropertyBase.java:113)  
at javafx.beans.property.ObjectPropertyBase.set(ObjectPropertyBase.java:147)  
at javafx.concurrent.Task.setState(Task.java:698)  
at javafx.concurrent.Task$TaskCallable.lambda$call$1(Task.java:1437)  
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$10(PlatformImpl.java:457)  
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)  
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$11(PlatformImpl.java:456)  
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:96)  
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.\_runLoop(Native Method)  
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$runLoop$3(WinApplication.java:184)  
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

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**Author:** ![rfolkes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@rfolkes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rfolkes)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799/4 "2023-03-31T19:17:56Z")

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Found the issue in network firewall that was blocking the .Jar file transfer.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-failed-launch-error-occurred/71799/5 "2023-03-31T19:36:43Z")

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> [@rfolkes](#):
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> network firewall that was blocking the .Jar file transfer.

Yeah, this is not an uncommon issue, this post must have slipped my mind or I would have suggested something along those lines.