[arch-general] Eclipse won't start any more

[Juergen Starek]

Attila wrote:

> On Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 14:23 Juergen Starek wrote:
> 
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10066
> [...]
> At the end of this bugreport adam reports that eclipse works (i test
> only Strg+Space) if you start it from the konsole instead of from the
> kde menu and this is true. Later he suggest to replace
> "/usr/share/eclipse/eclipse" with "eclipse" in the start menu settings
> and this works too.

OK, today I finally found the time to look into this. I can not confirm
that either of Adam Russ' suggestions in the bug comments (which you
cite) works for me. From a hint over on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup
by Eric Rizzo, I found that specifying a Java VM for Eclipse to use
shows some effect: After altering the eclipse.ini file as described in
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini I now get past the splash screen.
However, Eclipse crashes without any visible exceptions as soon as I
try to select a "code assist" entry.

I'm giving up on this. I don't need Firefox, and hence I'll just remove
it for now and see if anything turns out. Sorry!

Regards,

  Jürgen