Comment 58 for bug 68053

Hi!
I finally got it working on my AMD64. Here is my configuration:

tobi@hbd:~$ uname -a
Linux hbd 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 21:16:35 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

tobi@hbd:~$ java -version
java version "1.5.0_08"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_08-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode)

tobi@hbd:~$ grep proposed /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed universe main multiverse restricted

tobi@hbd:~$ dpkg -l |grep eclipse|awk '{print $2 $3}'
eclipse3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-jdt3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-pde3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-platform3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-rcp3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-source3.2.1-0ubuntu2
tobi@hbd:~$ dpkg -l |grep eclipse|awk '{print $2,$3}'
eclipse 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-jdt 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-pde 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-platform 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-rcp 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
eclipse-source 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
tobi@hbd:~$ dpkg -l |grep swt|awk '{print $2,$3}'
libswt3.2-gtk-java 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
libswt3.2-gtk-jni 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
tobi@hbd:~$ dpkg -l |grep jdk|awk '{print $2,$3}'
sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1

Important: When I tried to start eclipse, I still got the same error. So I deleted the workspace, still the same error. Finally I deleted the workspace and started eclipse with "eclipse -clean" and then it worked!

While starting I get this message:
using specified vm: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun

HTH!