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Debian (Sid) Eclipse F3 doesn't start, both GTK and Motif version. I installed in /opt/eclipse and ran ldconfig. Previous version F2 and M3 I tried only GTK) work fine. Now I get splash screen, next something like window appeared for a moment and I got next dialog window "Problems during startup. Check the '.log' file..." In .log file I found: !SESSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 cze 19, 2002 22:42:33.819 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processManifestFile(RegistryLoader.java:89) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processPluginPathFile(RegistryLoader.java:136) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processPluginPathEntry(RegistryLoader.java:127) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processManifestFiles(RegistryLoader.java:104) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.parseRegistry(RegistryLoader.java:63) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.parseRegistry(RegistryLoader.java:71) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.parsePlugins(InternalPlatform.java:716) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loadRegistry(InternalPlatform.java:665) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loaderStartup(InternalPlatform.java:561) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.startup(InternalBootLoader.java:873) at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:732) at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:462) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:248) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:697) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:530) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(SAXParser.java:95) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginParser.initializeParser(PluginParser.java:78) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginParser.<clinit>(PluginParser.java:43) ... 23 more The same message with motif version. JDK 1.4 from Sun. Nothig were changed except Eclipse version from F2 to F3 (by removing previous). I tried run it with -ws gtk option and -Djava.library.path=path do .so files (I found this on eclipse.tools newsgroup).
A new implementation of xerces was shipped with F3. Is it possible you have an incompatible version of xerces somewhere on your classpath? There have also been reports of Sun J2SE 1.4 including an incompatible version of xerces. What VM are you using?
I forgot. I use KDE 2.0.
The same I got with Gnome and Window Maker. And the same with F2 when I tried to return to it... So probably my last Debian upgrade spoilt some libararies.
Please followup again if you find out what caused this. The answer might be helpful to others in this situation...
From bug #19252: ------- Additional Comments From Timothy Folks 2002-06-17 04:01 ------- The problem is that, contrary to what Sun's JAXP pluggability FAQ tells you, must place both xercesImpl.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar into the jre\lib\endorsed directory. This is not an Eclipse bug, but a Sun documentation bug. -- I have forgotten about copying xerces libraries into jre/ext directory. When I removed its from /jre/ext directory Eclipse runs without problems. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19252 ***