Bug#401387: eclipse fails to start

[Miles Bader]

Package: eclipse
Version: 3.1.2-2
Severity: important



Hi,

I installed the "eclipse" and "eclipse-jdt" packages (oddly the latter
doesn't depend on the former; should it?).

Running "eclipse" in a shell window gives a dialog asking where to put
the workspace dir; I answer "/usr/local/eclipse", then it gives me a
progress bar showing it's loading all sorts of things ... and then
eventually when it seems have finished, it displays a an "error" window,
showing a rather cryptic message (unlike some of the other reported
problems, there's no apparent log file to look at):


   JVM terminated. Exit code=1
   /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java
   -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
   -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.1/classmap.db
   -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
   -Dosgi.locking=none
   -jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
   -os linux
   -ws gtk
   -arch x86
   -launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
   -name Eclipse
   -showsplash 600
   -exitdata 120013
   -install /usr/share/eclipse
   -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java
   -vmargs
   -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
   -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.1/classmap.db
   -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
   -Dosgi.locking=none
   -jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar 


At this point I don't know what to do.  If I click the "close"  button
on the error window, it goes away, but the eclipse splash window stays
(apparently doing nothing) and I have to kill eclipse manually.

Since reportbug doesn't list all related package, here's the complete
list of what aptitude says will be removed if I un-install eclipse:

   idA ant                                   1.6.5-6
   idA ant-optional                          1.6.5-6
   idA eclipse-jdt                           3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-jdt-common                    3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-pde                           3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-pde-common                    3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-platform                      3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-platform-common               3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-rcp                           3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-rcp-common                    3.1.2-2
   idA eclipse-source                        3.1.2-2
   idA fastjar                               1:4.1.1-20
   idA gcj-4.1-base                          4.1.1-20
   idA gij-4.1                               4.1.1-20
   idA java-common                           0.25
   idA java-gcj-compat                       1.0.65-8
   idA junit                                 3.8.1.1-7
   idA libbcel-java                          5.1-6
   idA libcommons-beanutils-java             1.7.0-4
   idA libcommons-collections-java           2.1.1-6
   idA libcommons-collections3-java          3.1a-3.1
   idA libcommons-dbcp-java                  1.2.1-4
   idA libcommons-digester-java              1.7-2
   idA libcommons-el-java                    1.0-3
   idA libcommons-fileupload-java            1.0-14
   idA libcommons-launcher-java              1.1-3
   idA libcommons-logging-java               1.0.4-5
   idA libcommons-modeler-java               1.1-8
   idA libcommons-pool-java                  1.3-1
   idA libgcj-common                         1:4.1.1-19
   idA libgcj7-0                             4.1.1-20
   idA libgcj7-awt                           4.1.1-20
   idA libgcj7-jar                           4.1.1-20
   idA libjaxp1.3-java                       1.3.03-4
   idA libjsch-java                          0.1.19-3
   idA liblog4j1.2-java                      1.2.13-2
   idA liblucene-java                        1.4.3.dfsg-1.2
   idA liblucene-java-doc                    1.4.3.dfsg-1.2
   idA libmx4j-java                          2.1.1-4
   idA libregexp-java                        1.4-3
   idA libservlet2.3-java                    4.0-8
   idA libservlet2.4-java                    5.0.30-3
   idA libswt3.1-gtk-java                    3.1.2-2
   idA libswt3.1-gtk-jni                     3.1.2-2
   idA libtomcat5-java                       5.0.30-12
   idA libxerces2-java                       2.8.1-1
   idA zenity                                2.14.3-1
   id  eclipse                               3.1.2-2


Thanks,

-Miles


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages eclipse depends on:
ii  eclipse-jdt                   3.1.2-2    Java Development Tools plug-ins fo
ii  eclipse-pde                   3.1.2-2    Plug-in Development Environment to
ii  eclipse-source                3.1.2-2    Eclipse source code plug-ins

eclipse recommends no packages.

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