Updated F8T2 x86_64 - Can't run Eclipse 3.3.0-19.fc8 as normal user
Andrew Overholt
overholt at redhat.com
Wed Sep 19 14:54:33 UTC 2007
* Jim Hayward <jimhayward at earthlink.net> [2007-09-18 19:57]:
>
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:23 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> >
> > I'm not seeing this on x86_64 or x86 with IcedTea or gcj. Note that you
> > shouldn't run Eclipse as root because it modifies files in
> > /usr/share/eclipse if it can write there which can then mess up future
> > running as a regular user.
>
> Interesting. I only tried running it as root AFTER I could not start
> Eclipse as my normal user.
>
> The F8T2 was a clean install, leaving my old home partition unformatted.
> I didn't have any problems previously running Eclipse in F7.
>
> I'll try uninstalling/reinstalling Eclipse, making
> sure /usr/share/eclipse is empty and try again.
I don't *think* this should cause a problem, but try temporarily moving
~/.eclipse out of the way and see if that fixes it.
Andrew
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