Bug#342789: eclipse: Eclipse crashes at startup

[Michael Koch]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:42:05AM +0100, xavier.gnata at free.fr wrote:
> I have already tried to remove my ~/.eclipse but it did not help.
> 
> 
> $>ls -l /usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar
> /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     57 2005-12-16 00:37
> /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar ->
> ../../../share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 748300 2005-12-01 10:21
> /usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar

This looks okay.

> I have no java from sun anymore on my box.
> 
> I have try to purge all my eclipse installation (apt-get remove --purge
> eclipse*) and to reinstall but it did not help.
> 
> After this eclipse reinistall, I have tried eclipse -debug.
> Here is the first lines of log file :
> 
> !SESSION 2005-12-16 10:34:11.999 -----------------------------------------------
> eclipse.buildId=M20050929-0840
> java.fullversion=GNU libgcj 4.0.3 20051204 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5j2)
> BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
> Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -debug
> 
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-12-16 10:34:15.37
> !MESSAGE Bundle update at plugins/org.eclipse.jface_3.1.1.jar [10] was not
> resolved.
> !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2005-12-16 10:34:15.37
> !MESSAGE Missing required bundle org.eclipse.swt_0.0.0.
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-12-16 10:34:15.39
> !MESSAGE Bundle update at plugins/org.eclipse.ui_3.1.1.jar [11] was not resolved.
> !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2005-12-16 10:34:15.40
> !MESSAGE Missing required bundle org.eclipse.swt_0.0.0.
> !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2005-12-16 10:34:15.40
> !MESSAGE Missing required bundle org.eclipse.jface_0.0.0.
> !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.osgi 2005-12-16 10:34:15.40
> !MESSAGE Missing required bundle org.eclipse.ui.workbench_0.0.0.
> 
> 
> What is the best way to remove *all* the eclipse and java related files from my
> box (packages but also .eclipse and so on). I would like to do as clean as
> possbile install of eclipse (I would like to be sure there is no crappy file in
> my eclipse install).

The versions '0.0.0' look really suspicious. They are either cached in
~/.eclipse or ~/workspace/.metadata. As you have already tried to remove
the ~/.eclipse dir I guess its the later.

Can you please try to rename your ~/workspace dir for testing purposes?
(And rename ~/.eclipse at the same time too to have a clean start).

> If this bug is related to a crappy file which is not under control of eclipse
> packages, I do apologize for the noise.

That is okay. Others might have the same problems when using eclipse. I
still have a bad feeling that this bug is related to an XML handling bug in
libgcj6.


Cheers,
Michael
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