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Eclipse 2.1.3 startup failure

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Jason Friedman

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Mar 27, 2004, 4:51:59 PM3/27/04
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Hello,

I was unable to start up 2.1.3, GTK. I've been using 2.1.1.

$ uname -a
Linux love 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

The error message is:
$ cat .log
!SESSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Mar 27, 2004 21:41:08.577
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Decorations
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1610)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1922)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:278)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor.createExecutableExtension(PluginDescriptor.java:138)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor.createExecutableExtension(PluginDescriptor.java:167)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:103)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loaderGetRunnable(InternalPlatform.java:578)
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.getRunnable(InternalBootLoader.java:471)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:854)
at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:461)
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:291)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:747)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:583)

Jason Friedman

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Mar 28, 2004, 4:47:23 PM3/28/04
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I was able to get past this by removing the .metadata directory:

~/workspace/.metadata

When I started up again, Eclipse created a new one. I lost all of my
settings, though.

Look also at "$ eclipse -data <data_dir>" from the command line.

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