Bug#339289: eclipse-sdk: Eclipse hangs on startup

[Miles Bader]

Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de> writes:
> As you have java-gcj-compat installed I think eclipse uses this as its
> runtime. Unfortunately this currently breaks due to a binutils bug.
> A workaround is either to use another runtime to execute eclipse or to
> run the following command in a separate terminal:
>
> while true ; do killall c++filt 2>/dev/null ; done

Thank you, the "killall c++filt" trick does the job.

-Miles
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