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    On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 20:07:32 -0500 "William L. DeRieux IV" <williamderieux@gmail.com>
      wrote:<br>
      > after editing /etc/eclipse.ini<br>
      > and adding -debug to it<br>
      > <br>
      > I get the following output (when running eclipse):<br>
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      > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option
      MaxPermSize=256m; <br>
      > support was removed in 8.0<br>
      > Install location:<br>
      >     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/usr/lib/eclipse/">file:/usr/lib/eclipse/</a><br>
      > Configuration file:<br>
      >     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/config.ini">file:/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/config.ini</a> loaded<br>
      > Configuration location:<br>
      >
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/home/william/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/">file:/home/william/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/</a><br>
      > Configuration file:<br>
      >
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/home/william/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/config.ini">file:/home/william/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/config.ini</a>
      <br>
      > not found or not read<br>
      > Shared configuration location:<br>
      >     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/">file:/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/</a><br>
      > Framework located:<br>
      >    
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar">file:/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar</a><br>
      > Framework classpath:<br>
      > Splash location:<br>
      >
      /usr/lib/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.8.1.dist/splash.bmp<br>
      > -----------------------------------------<br>
      > <br>
      > And the error message written to the log file:<br>
      > <br>
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      > !SESSION Fri Mar 09 20:00:00 EST 2018<br>
      > !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2018-03-09
      20:00:00.374<br>
      > !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:<br>
      > !STACK<br>
      > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: <br>
      > org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter<br>
      >     at
      java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)<br>
      >     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)<br>
      >     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)<br>
      >     at
      org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:626)<br>
      >     at
      org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:584)<br>
      >     at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1438)<br>
      >     at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1414)<br>
      > <br>
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      > <br>
      > It seems that this error is happening because the framework's
      class path<br>
      > is not being properly set (hence it can't find the class).<br>
      > <br>
      > <br>
      > <br>
    </williamderieux@gmail.com><br>
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    I resolved this issue (on my system) by reinstalling libequinox<br>
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    $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libequinox-osgi-java<br>
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    The debug output claimed that the framework has been found, but this
    was a lie since: <br>
    /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar was
    missing.<br>
    <br>
    Maybe there needs to be better sanity checking here.....<br>
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