Update -> b0rken eclipse

[darrell pfeifer]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 14:37, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:

> Another update today, another significant breakage.
>
> My Eclipse stopped working.
>
> I have my private version of Eclipse (non-native, so it was not
> affected by the update), and I'm running java 1.6.0_04-b12 from Sun,
> so again that was not affected by the update.
>
> Problem is that now Eclipse refuses to start by displaying a
> completely empty dialog (right at the end of the loading
> sequence).
>
> I've been running this combination of Sun's Java + Eclipse
> for some time without a problem.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what changed, and the only things
> that seem relevant are:
>
> May 07 13:54:25 Installed: kernel-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.i586
> May 08 14:55:16 Updated: libgcc-4.4.0-4.i586
> May 08 14:55:17 Updated: libstdc++-4.4.0-4.i586
>
> Here is the full list of updates since the last reboot:
>

Are you starting eclipse with a brand new workspace? If so the empty dialog
problem has been around for a long time. I think it is actually due to a gtk
update. An empty workspace displays the big-buttoned welcome screen, which
is what I think is having problems. The workaround for me is to copy an
existing workspace, then delete everything to get an empty workspace.

I haven't seen a fix for the problem yet. I'm using Eclipse 3.4 with newest
Sun java and a completely updated rawhide.

If it is happening on an existing workspace then I haven't seen that one yet
(though I guess if you operate from the big-button welcome/task screen) I
can see it happening all the time.

darrell
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