Bug#507536: it does not work here either

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org> wrote:
> severity 507536 serious
> thanks
>
>
> pure unstable/amd64 system here. I just installed eclipse to test something and I
> got this problem too.
>
> When starting eclipse from command line i got:
>
> ana at pryan:$ eclipse
> searching for compatible vm...
>  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk...not found
>  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found
> ***Here it stops and i get a popup message: "This Eclipse build doesn't have
> support for the integrated browser." I accept and it continues ...
> Could not create /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension. Please run as root:
>    touch /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension
>    chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension
>    chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java: symbol lookup error:
> /home/ana/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.2.0/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/46/1/.cp/libswt-mozilla-gtk-3236.so:
> undefined symbol: _ZN4nsID5ParseEPKc
>
>
> It it the first time I install eclipse (never used it before, really).

Please try openjdk instead of gcj, gcj has never been really reliable
for eclipse afaict.
The only reason it was pursued was because it has the right license.
Now with openjdk, gcj should probably be deprecated (at least for eclipse).