This workaround does not work for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eclipse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/944186
Title: Eclipse crashes at startup Status in “eclipse” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I got this log error file: !SESSION Thu Mar 01 17:51:54 CET 2012 ------------------------------------------ !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2012-03-01 17:51:54.142 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:619) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1386) Reinstallation doesn't work, even using: sudo apt-get remove --purge eclipse sudo apt-get install eclipse To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/944186/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp