Description spalda2 2011-08-16 08:48:22 EDT

after executing the following command:
ifconfig lo0 alias 172.16.123.1
eclipse would occasionally refuse to start with the log file copied below. Once it resused to start nothing really helps and the only cure seemed to be to remove that alias ip from local loopback.

-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 1.4.0.20110609-1120 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.jdt 3.7.0.v20110520-0800-7z8gFchFMTdFYKuLqBLqRja9B15B
-- log file --
 !SESSION 2011-08-13 09:17:40.931 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.6.0_26
java.vendor=Apple Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86_64, WS=cocoa, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -keyring /Users/spalda2/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation
Command-line arguments:  -os macosx -ws cocoa -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -keyring /Users/spalda2/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2011-08-13 09:17:41.225
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initializeProperties(Framework.java:377)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:199)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:161)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:261)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
	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:597)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:622)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
	at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1356)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.UniversalUniqueIdentifier.getIPAddress(UniversalUniqueIdentifier.java:146)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.UniversalUniqueIdentifier.computeNodeAddress(UniversalUniqueIdentifier.java:113)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.UniversalUniqueIdentifier.<clinit>(UniversalUniqueIdentifier.java:35)
	... 12 more