Christian Marillat wrote: > Package: eclipse > Version: 3.4.1-1 > Severity: grave > > Hi, > > eclipse doesn't start : > > ============================================================================== > searching for compatible vm... > testing /usr/lib/jvm/default-java...not found > testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...not found > testing /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads...not found > Could not create /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension. Please run as root: > touch /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension > chmod 2775 /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension > chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension > ============================================================================== > > Even after doing the changes above : > > ============================================================================== > $ eclipse > searching for compatible vm... > testing /usr/lib/jvm/default-java...not found > testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...not found > testing /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads...not found > ============================================================================== > > Christian > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (900, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages eclipse depends on: > ii eclipse-jdt 3.4.1-1 Java Development Tools plug-ins > fo > ii eclipse-pde 3.4.1-1 Plug-in Development Environment > to > ii eclipse-source 3.4.1-1 Eclipse source code plug-ins > ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > lib > ii zenity 2.28.0-2 Display graphical dialog boxes > fro > > Versions of packages eclipse recommends: > pn eclipse-gcj <none> (no description available) > > eclipse suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information >
Hi
Thanks for the bug report. Beginning with the next upload, eclipse will
use /usr/bin/java by default (and thus respecting your local alternative).
Until the upload you can work around this one of the following ways:
* install default-jre (or default-jdk)
- This will install openjdk6 if you do not already have it and
create the default-java symlink that eclipse is expecting.
* start eclipse with the "-vm" flag.
- eclipse -vm /usr/bin/java
- eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/${jvm}/bin/java
- There is more than one way of doing this, see the manpage for
alternative ways. Though I cannot remember if this will cause
eclipse to ignore its ini file.
* Add your JVM to /etc/eclipse/java_home
- Note that this configuration file will be obsolete and ignored
after the next upload.
Assuming you have openjdk installed, I would recommend the "first"
option as the default-{jre,jdk} are just meta packages.
While you could install the gcj java, I would not recommend it. gcj is
inferior to openjdk and eclipse is known to fail with gcj[1].
In regards to "/usr/local/lib/eclipse/.eclipseextension". I believe it
was an attempt by the previous maintainers or the previous versions of
eclipse to load (local/extra) extensions/features/plugins.
The file itself is unrelated to whether eclipse is able to start and
this file nor its sibling in /usr/lib/eclipse will not - to the best of
my knowledge - be used in eclipse 3.5.2 (or later).
Obviously, eclipse will not ask you to create the file after the next
upload as well.
~Niels
[1] I believe it was added back when gcj was the best free alternative
present.
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