Jakub,
I ran the eclipse 3.8.0 gotten straight from eclipse.org, without any change to my existing configuration or selection of java alternatives (of Oracle jre) and it ran perfectly fine. Further, I did not run eclipse as root. If the same upstream source works fine on my system but the debian package does not, isn't this more likely to be a packaging issue? A similar issue arose with 3.7.2 in the earlier bug referenced in my email. thanks, --jack ________________________________ From: Jakub Adam <jakub.a...@ktknet.cz> To: 683...@bugs.debian.org; jsh...@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 7:43 PM Subject: Re: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application Hi, installation of Eclipse into a clean sid system works for me. As you say you got an error even when config is removed, I think it's a different local issue. Here are some tips for further investigation: 1. Try to run Eclipse with OpenJDK 6 to make sure it's not a problem specific to Oracle JRE. ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86 symlinks are not needed with 3.8.0, that was a different issue. 2. If possible, try to launch with a new clean user account, find out if there isn't still any configuration in your $HOME that prevents Eclipse from starting. 3. There might be some modified files in the installation, left by an (accidental) attempt to run Eclipse as root. Try purging the installation (removing libequinox-osgi-java should uninstall also all the eclipse packages). Make sure that /usr/lib/eclipse and /usr/share/eclipse are empty, delete any files still there. Then install everything back again. Regards, Jakub
