Bug 551261

Summary:	After update to 2019-09: The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Michael - <saeich>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	Bruce.Kulback
Version:	4.14
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Michael -

2019-09-19 13:39:44 EDT

I've just did an update from eclipse ide for enterprise developers from 2019-06 to 2019-09. The update seemd to be successful, it asked me if I wanted to restart the IDE. I've said yes.
Result:
"The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library"
Starting on the console I get: 
configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/349/data/-1443554215/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.1100.v20190907-0426: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm running eclipse on a Debian Linux, the stable (Buster) version.

So I guess it's another reinstall of eclipse (I have to do that for 3 out of 4 updates... somehow it starts boring me)

Comment 1 Bruce Kulback

2019-09-20 09:34:56 EDT

Same issue here using CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810

openjdk version "1.8.0_222"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_222-b10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.222-b10, mixed mode)

Messages:

configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/1081/data/-1330060807/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.1100.v20190907-0426: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: 09:07:21.231: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
UI Dialog: "The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library"

Had already been running 2019-09, but received an update during eclipse startup today.  Agreed to the terms and process presumably completed.  Did not ask for a restart.  The next startup failed with the message above.