FC4 and Eclipse Issue

[Igor Foox]

Hi Stephen,

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:02 -0600, Stephen Esquibel wrote:
> All,
> I'm new to fedora, and Ihave an issue with Eclipse.  Every time I
> start it up, I recieve a pop-up with this error message.
> 
> JVM terminated. Exit code=1 
> /usr/bin/java
> -jar startup.jar
> -os linux
> -ws gtk
> -arch x86
> -launcher /usr/bin/eclipse
> -name Eclipse
> -showsplash 600
> -exitdata 140018
> -vm /usr/bin/java
> -vmargs
> -jar startup.jar 
> 
> 
> Here are the java links for my system
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 Mar 12 20:19 /usr/bin/java
> -> /etc/alternatives/java*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 35 Mar 19 22:14 /etc/alternatives/java
> -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java*
> 
> Any thoughts?

What you're probably seeing is this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177210

This is a pretty annoying (although known) issue with FC4, and you can
look at that bug for a long-winded discussion. FYI, this problem does
not happen with FC5.

Thanks,
Igor