Bug#511713: eclipse won't start

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Aaron Valdes <aaronvaldes at rogers.com> wrote:
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.2.2-6.1
> Severity: important
>
>
> When I try to start Eclipse I get this message....
>
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>  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk...found
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/83/1/.cp/libswt-mozilla-gtk-3236.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4nsID5ParseEPKci

I 'm not 100% sure but I think  your problem is related to mozilla/libxul.
I don't use the 3.2 version of eclipse, but for 3.4 installing libxul-dev
had fixed the problem for me.

Just some food for thought,
Pantelis