FWIW -- ran into the same situation, mentioned that I am still using no longer supported Sun Java, so
sudo apt-get install java-common # to make sure having up-to-date tool sudo update-java-alternatives --auto switched to openjdk and now eclipse starts fine -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use [email protected] for discussions and questions.
