Bug#446328: eclipse: Welcome Screen Fails to Start, Displays Error

[Michael Koch]

Hello Leo,


On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:27:19PM -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:55:09AM +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Does it work now with the latest upgrade of libgtk2.0-0 package?
> >
> 	The issue was not resolved by installing the latest version of
> libgtk2.0-0 from 'unstable' (2.12.0-3).
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:48:38PM +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Can you please check output of strace what path to startup.jar gets
> > tried to load? How do you start eclipse? Via command line or menu entry?
> > If by command line, invoking /usr/bin/eclipse or /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse?
> >
> 	I started it from the command line, which resolves to
> /usr/bin/eclipse.  I've attached the 'strace' output.  The relevant line
> would appear to be #353:
> 
> execve("/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse", ["/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse", "-vm", "/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java", "-install", "/usr/lib/eclipse", "-startup", "/usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar", "-vmargs", "-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni"..., "-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/v"..., "-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader."..., "-Dosgi.locking=none"], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0

Hmmm, according to strace it tries to open
'/usr/lib/eclipse//usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar'.

This is just wrong. I currently dont know where this comes from. Some
other users reported the same but said latest updates from unstable
fixed it. Can you try this?


Cheers,
Michael