On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:30:39PM -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote: > Package: eclipse > Version: 3.2.2-4 > Severity: important > > Attempts to open the Welcome screen result in a pane with an > error describing an inability to load a class. The topmost error is: > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin > > This can most easily be reproduced by starting eclipse 'clean', > that is, without any pre-existing 'workspace' or '.eclipse' directories. > Eclipse will attempt to display the Welcome screen, but fail. Other > panes *seem* to work correctly, but I'm not very experienced with > eclipse so I can't speak to that (I'm trying to learn the darned thing, > but I keep finding bugs.)
This looks like the eclipse-rcp package is not installed, not uptodate, to something like that. Please make sure to install the 'eclipse' package to have all needed packages installed. Please check also that eclipse-platform is uptodate. > I have the Sun JVM installed, but eclipse seems to be defaulting > to gcj. Perhaps my Debian 'alternatives' are messed up? They're set up > as: > > walkies:/etc# update-alternatives --display java_vm > java_vm - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm - priority 63 > Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm. > > walkies:/etc# update-alternatives --display java > java - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63 > slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz > /usr/bin/gij-4.1 - priority 41 > /usr/bin/gij-4.2 - priority 42 > slave java.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gij-4.2.1.gz > /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java - priority 1042 > Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java. eclipse doesnt use the alternatives mechanism (yet). It has its own mechanism. To overwrite runtime search order please edit /etc/eclipse/java_home or use one of the other ways described in the eclipse manpage. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
