Bug#891956: (no subject)

[William L. DeRieux IV]

after editing /etc/eclipse.ini
and adding -debug to it

I get the following output (when running eclipse):
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OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; 
support was removed in 8.0
Install location:
     file:/usr/lib/eclipse/
Configuration file:
     file:/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/config.ini loaded
Configuration location:
file:/home/william/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/
Configuration file:
file:/home/william/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/config.ini 
not found or not read
Shared configuration location:
     file:/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/
Framework located:
     file:/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar
Framework classpath:
Splash location:
/usr/lib/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.8.1.dist/splash.bmp
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And the error message written to the log file:

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!SESSION Fri Mar 09 20:00:00 EST 2018
!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2018-03-09 20:00:00.374
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter
     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:626)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:584)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1438)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1414)


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It seems that this error is happening because the framework's class path
is not being properly set (hence it can't find the class).