Running Eclipse on Athena

[wajahat]

after running the initial setup, I ran the command "runeclipse" and I get this error message.

An error has occurred. See the log file
/mit/wajahat/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.0/configuration/1139686107299.log.

log file attached..

[ericl]

Doing a quick Google search turned up with this bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=103263

Are you sure you installed the SDK rather than the runtime environment on your computer?  Here's one suggestion from this webpage:

According to discussions in an online forum at heise.de, this error occurs when installing the Platform and JDT runtime binaries only, not(!) the SDK. The "workaround" suggested there was to download the SDK instead of the binaries.

Can you make sure that is installed correctly then post if that worked?

[Dave Glasser (LA)]

Well, this is Athena right -- no installation?

[ericl]

I'm sorry, I missed the fact that this was on Athena.  I've tried to look into the bug a bit more, but most of the reports on it seem to say that it stems from a bad installation or config file.  Is there anything strange about your configuration?

[Kate Hollenbach (LA)]

I'm sorry, I missed the fact that this was on Athena.  I've tried to look into the bug a bit more, but most of the reports on it seem to say that it stems from a bad installation or config file.  Is there anything strange about your configuration?

You're probably right, that there was a problem with some eclipse config file. For future reference, we were able to fix the problem by deleting all of the eclipse-related files/directories like ".eclipse" and ".lasteclipse31" from the student's home folder on athena.