On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Steven Leikeim wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:05:47AM -0700, Troy Dawson wrote:
Troy J Dawson wrote:
Steven Leikeim wrote:
Happy New Year everyone.
We are having a problem with the Eclipse IDE
(eclipse-platform-3.2.1-19.el5.x86_64)
in that it is not starting correctly. When we start Eclipse, doesn't matter
if it's started from the command line or Window Manger Menu, we get the message:
An error has occured. See the log file
..../sleikeim/workspace/.metadata/.log
which contains:
.......
The last related updates to java appear to be on October 21st where jdk was
updated to 2000:jdk-1.6.0_22-fcs and java-1.6.0-sun-compat was updated to
java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.22-3.sl5.jpp. (In both cases, both i586 and x86_64
architectures were updated.)
I tested this on a clean installation of Scientific Linux 5.5 (x86_64) with
the following results:
- Basic minimal installation of Scientifc Linux 5.5 with the addition
of eclipse-platform but no further updates - Eclipse works
- Updated all RPMS **EXCEPT** jdk and java-1.6.0-sun-compat - Eclipse
works.
- Updated jdk and java-1.6.0-sun-compat - Eclipse crashes as noted
above.
Finally, my questions are:
- Is this a known issue? (If not is is now!! :) )
Yes, though not widely known.
It's a bit of a pain because with SL5.5 we have 3 different versions of
java. gcj, sun (oracle), and openjdk
- Is there a known workaround or update to fix this problem?
This may, or may not, be a workaround for you.
Eclipse wants to use the gcj version of java.
I did the following to get eclipse working
rpm -e --nodeps java-1.4.2-gcj-compat java-1.6.0-sun-compat
yum install java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
Of course, that means that all of my java links point to the gcj version
of java, which may or may not be what you want.
I am currently checking to see if eclipse will work with the openjdk,
which would be a better solution, since it is version 1.6
Troy
Well, it looks like openjdk is the better solution.
I installed all of the openjdk packages
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk\*
and eclipse worked for me.
I even updated my sun java
yum install java-1.6.0-sun-compat
And eclipse continued to work.
Let us know if this works for you.
Thanks
Troy
Troy,
Success!!!!!!
Eclipse now starts up correctly with the java-1.6.0-openjdk installed. The
only snag I ran is if the java-1.6.0-sun-compat is installed first, it creates
the symbolic link /usr/bin/java pointing to /usr/java/default/bin/java. In
order to use the java-1.6.0-openjdk this needs to point to
/etc/alternatives/java.
(It's possible that this link is being put in place by the jdk RPM.)
Pointing /usr/bin/java to /etc/alternatives/java still allows the
Maybe you can use the "alternatives" command to "fix" this vs changing the
link manually.
-Connie Sieh
java-1.6.0-sun-compat java to work properly. When the java-1.6.0-openjdk is
installed, it is automatically selected at the "best" version and Eclipse is
happy.
Thanks for your help in fixing this problem.
Steven Leikeim
