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

[Niels Thykier]

forcemerge 507536 554423
retitle 507536 eclipse: fails to start due to xulrunner - workaround; disable welcome screen.
thanks

Hi Christian

Thank you for taking your time to report this problem as well as finding a
work-around. I believe you are experiencing one of #507536 (and #515747)
many forms (Namely because "XPCOM" is a part of xulrunner[1]). It may also
work to changing your user's "default" xulrunner (see #507536; comment 126
footnote 2 [2]) - though as I recall xulrunner 1.9.1 has become the new
default in sid, so you may not be able to this workaround any longer.

As for the "no support integrated browser"; this has its own set of bugs.
Suffice to say this warning is "at best" correct but has had quite a few
false-positives in the past. We will remove that warning on next upload.

Also I am not sure how eclipse handles "libgtkembedmoz.so", but if you
want eclipse to use it you probably want to use MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME - though
you will probably have to remove the symlink again. The eclipse wrapper
for 3.4.1 is not particularly well written (See #402340; comment 65 [3]).

To those of you following #507536 here is the work around proposed by
Christian:

>
> 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
>

~Niels

[1] shell$ aptitude show xulrunner | grep Description
Description: XUL + XPCOM application runner

[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507536#126

[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402340#65