Bug#340451: eclipse-sdk: eclipse can't find EclipseStarter on startup, terminates

[Benjamin Carlyle]

Package: eclipse-sdk
Version: 3.1.1-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I've tried installing eclipse from unstable using gcj, kaffe, and
sablevm. gcj and kaffe seem to give me the same results. sablevm did not
appear to be found. Eclipse very quickly terminates after starting up
the jvm, and points me to a log file containing:

!SESSION Thu Nov 24 00:32:06 GMT+10:00 2005
------------------------------------!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0
2005-11-24 00:32:08.48
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter not found in
org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main$StartupClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass (URLClassLoader.java:856)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:349)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:301)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework (Main.java:331)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun (Main.java:278)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run (Main.java:973)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main (Main.java:948)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0 (Method.java)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:255)
   at kaffe.jar.ExecJarName.main (ExecJarName.java:64)
   at kaffe.jar.ExecJar.main (ExecJar.java:57)

This is presumably something that is specific to my system, or has been
introduced fairly recently. This is a new install of eclipse on my
system, done just after a dist-upgrade today.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages eclipse-sdk depends on:
ii  eclipse-jdt                   3.1.1-5    Java Development Tools plug-ins fo
ii  eclipse-pde                   3.1.1-5    Plug-in Development Environment to

eclipse-sdk recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information