Eclipse won't start on ubuntu dapper (amd64)

Bug #4567 reported by Christophe Dumez
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #3074: Eclipse fails to boot. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
eclipse (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Matthias Klose

Bug Description

I'm using Ubuntu dapper (up-to-date) amd64 and eclipse is freezing before displaying splash screen.

Here is what I get in console :
"$> eclipse
searching for compatible vm...
  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found
" (nothing after, as long as I waited)

Blackdown java 1.4 is installed I will try to use it.

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :
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I modified order in /etc/eclipse/ to put "/usr/lib/j2se/1.4" first. Now I get an error message :
!SESSION 2005-11-17 14:02:05.673 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=
java.version=1.4.2-02
java.vendor=Blackdown Java-Linux Team
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=fr_FR
Framework arguments:
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2005-11-17 14:02:09.745
!MESSAGE /usr/local/lib/eclipse/plugins is not a valid plugins directory.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-11-17 14:02:09.816
!MESSAGE An error occurred while automatically activating bundle org.eclipse.ui.workbench (21).
!STACK 0
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: The activator org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPlugin for bundle org.eclipse.ui.workbench is invalid
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.loadBundleActivator(AbstractBundle.java:149)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:965)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:313)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.start(AbstractBundle.java:264)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseClassLoader.findLocalClass(EclipseClassLoader.java:116)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleLoader.findLocalClass(BundleLoader.java:337)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.SingleSourcePackage.loadClass(SingleSourcePackage.java:37)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:386)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:350)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core.AbstractClassLoader.loadClass(AbstractClassLoader.java:78)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core.DefaultClassLoader.defineClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:370)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseClassLoader.defineClass(EclipseClassLoader.java:233)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core.DefaultClassLoader.findClassImpl(DefaultClassLoader.java:343)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core.DefaultClassLoader.findClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:235)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core.AbstractClassLoader.findLocalClass(AbstractClassLoader.java:183)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseClassLoader.basicFindLocalClass(EclipseClassLoader.java:141)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseClassLoader.findLocalClass(EclipseClassLoader.java:82)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleLoader.findLocalClass(BundleLoader.java:337)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:389)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:350)
 at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core.AbstractClassLoader.loadClass(AbstractClassLoader.java:78)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
 at org....

description: updated
Changed in eclipse:
assignee: nobody → motu
Zak B. Elep (zakame)
Changed in eclipse:
assignee: motu → motujava
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Andy Hauser (andy-ubuntu-bugzilla) wrote :

Same here on both Dapper and Breezy on amd64.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

works for me in current dapper. please can you recheck?

Changed in eclipse:
assignee: motujava → doko
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Andy Hauser (andy-ubuntu-bugzilla) wrote :

Yes, works, please close.

Matthias Klose (doko)
Changed in eclipse:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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