[arch-general] Update to latest jre/jdk break Eclipse

[David Rosenstrauch]

Ondřej Kučera wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Christian Babeux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently updated my laptop, and it updated JRE and JDK. After that 
>> update Eclipse won't start. I don't know if it need rebuilding because 
>> I saw on the dev list that we are no longer using Sun's JVM and opted 
>> for the open-source one (openjdk) (correct me if I am wrong) ?
>>
>> Anyway here the relevant versions of the packages :
>> eclipse 3.4.1-1
>> jdk 6u11-1
>> jre 6u11-1
> 
> If you're using jdk/jre from community, it is still the Sun's Java 
> implementation. You'd have to remove it and then do pacman -S openjdk6 
> to switch.
> 
> Don't know what's wrong with Eclipse though.
> 
>> I attached the Eclipse log file with this message.
>> *EDIT*: For some reasons the list wouldn't let me post the log file so 
>> here a link:
>> http://pastebin.com/m1beb7eb9
> 
> Perhaps try to do some googling about the errors from lines 11 and 25. 
> Actually, all the lines of the pattern "Bundle 
> reference:file:plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources.compatibility_3.4.0.v20080604-1400.jar 
> was not resolved." are suspicious too. Seems like eclipse can't find 
> many of its plugins. Try to look for these files whether you have them 
> somewhere. Didn't you use some auto-update that might have failed or 
> something?
> 
> Ondřej

Have you run Eclipse recently, Christian?  (i.e., since after recent 
Eclipse upgrades)  Because I've found that sometimes my workspace 
becomes incompatible with newer versions of Eclipse.  So try creating a 
new workspace maybe and see if you still have the problem.

HTH,

DR