I've upgraded to Eclipse 3.4 through Portage, but I have been unable to get it working. It keeps crashing complaining that it can't create a configuration file, but I've got no idea why - if I remove the whole ~/.eclipse directory it gets recreated, so it's definitely not a permissions issue. I thought it may be because I was running Java 1.6 (the latest in Portage) but I tried rebuilding Eclipse with USE="java6" but it didn't make a difference. Eclipse 3.3 still works. Here are the first few relevant lines from the log file: !SESSION 2008-09-02 10:54:48.398 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=I20080617-2000 java.version=1.6.0_07 java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_AU Framework arguments: Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 !ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 4 0 2008-09-02 10:54:48.928 !MESSAGE !STACK 0 org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exception in org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.start() of bundle org.eclipse.update.configurator. at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:1028) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:984) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:346) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:355) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1074) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:616) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:508) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:299) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:489) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:211) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:321) Caused by: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Cannot create configuration in file:/home/adam/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.4.0_272132067/configuration/ at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.Utils.newCoreException(Utils.java:96) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.initialize(ConfigurationActivator.java:113) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.start(ConfigurationActivator.java:69) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$2.run(BundleContextImpl.java:1009) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:1003) ... 10 more Root exception: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Cannot create configuration in file:/home/adam/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.4.0_272132067/configuration/ at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.Utils.newCoreException(Utils.java:96) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.initialize(ConfigurationActivator.java:113) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.start(ConfigurationActivator.java:69) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$2.run(BundleContextImpl.java:1009) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:1003) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:984) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:346) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:355) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1074) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:616) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:508) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:299) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:489) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:211) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:321) !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.runtime 4 0 2008-09-02 10:54:48.931 !MESSAGE !STACK 0 org.osgi.framework.BundleException: The bundle could not be resolved. Reason: Missing Constraint: Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.core.jobs; bundle-version="[3.2.0,4.0.0)" at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:305) ...
I had this issue at some point. But not anymore, though. Sync portage tree and re-emerge java dependent packages of eclipse-sdk. Then check again, please. Maybe this was some osgi/manifest issue of a java package.
Oh you're right - I re-emerged dev-java/swt and the problem went away! Thanks for the solution!
(Apologies for the double post - I tried to set it to INVALID but the box jumped to UPSTREAM before I noticed...)
