Bug#340451: eclipse-sdk: eclipse can't find EclipseStarter on startup, terminates

Michael Koch konqueror at gmx.de
Sun Nov 27 13:05:55 UTC 2005


severity 340451 normal
tag 340451 unreproducible
thanks

> Ahah!
> /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar points
> to ../../../share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar
> (/usr/share/...),
> but /usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.1.1.jar does not
> exist.
> 
> I have just purged eclipse-rcp-common and reinstalled. This picked up
> eclipse-rcp-common_3.1.1-5, and the file now exists. Eclipse starts.
> Problem solved!
> 
> This leaves me wondering how it could have come about in the first
> place. It may have been a different eclipse-rcp-common, but then it
> shouldn't have shown up in the dpkg -S. Perhaps the install just went
> strangely awry.

Really strange. I see no way I could reproduce this. I downgrade the
severity of this bug to normal and tag it unreproducible for now.


Cheers,
Michael
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