Bug#637450: eclipse-platform: org.osgi.framework.BundleException on Startup, Editor can't be opened

[Niels Thykier]

On 2011-08-11 16:45, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Package: eclipse-platform
> Version: 3.5.2-11
> Severity: normal
> 
> After the  update from either 3.5.2-9 or 3.5.2-10 to 3.5.2-11, eclipse starts
> up with
> 
> [...]
> 
> In the GUI, neither Editor nor Project Explorer pane can be opened. In the
> editor pane, there is only a message "Could not open the editor: No editor
> descriptor for id org.python.pydev.editor.PythonEditor".
> 
> Pydev is installed manually (no eclipse-pydev package installed) and was
> working just fine until the eclipse update.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> [...]
> -- no debconf information

Hi,

You are most likely suffering from #587657; the easiest way to solve
this is to run "rm -fr ~/.eclipse", open eclipse and then re-install the
plugins again.
  Alternatively, you can manually correct the "bundles.info" file in
~/.eclipse, which should also work.

I know neither of these are very nice solutions, but unfortunately it is
caused by upstream having very poor support for this kind of setups.  If
you are interested in the exact details, please refer to [1].

~Niels

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=351485