Bug#554423: eclipse: Eclipse fails to start - disabling welcome screen cures problem

[Christian Holm Christensen]

Package: eclipse
Version: 3.4.1-1
Justification: renders package unusable
Severity: grave

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Eclipse fails to start up.  When running `eclipse', I get 

* a dialog that says there's no support for integrated browers, 
* the splash screen, 
* then the workspace dialog
* and then the splash screen.  

However, the start-up sequence terminates about 25% in, and a dialog
tells 
me to look in <workspace_dir>/.metadata/.log.  

In that file (attached), there's a long stack trace, which contains a
number of 

  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147467262
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
  org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147467262

There is a cure for this, see 

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483832#c17

That is, make a temporary file and point to that when starting eclipse. 

  echo "org.eclipse.ui/showIntro=false" > /tmp/noWelcomeScreen.ini
  eclipse -pluginCustomization /tmp/noWelcomeScreen.ini

Note, that I installed icedove and
linked /usr/lib/icedove/libgtkembedmoz.so 
to /usr/lib/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so, which removes the first dialog,
but
does not make eclipse start up, so I don't think this is the same as bug
#515747 and siblings. I have installed xulrunner-dev too - same as
before.

Thank you. 




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eclipse depends on:
ii  eclipse-jdt                   3.4.1-1    Java Development Tools plug-ins fo
ii  eclipse-pde                   3.4.1-1    Plug-in Development Environment to
ii  eclipse-source                3.4.1-1    Eclipse source code plug-ins
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zenity                        2.28.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages eclipse recommends:
pn  eclipse-gcj                   <none>     (no description available)

eclipse suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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