Description Randal Cobb 2004-05-06 09:22:46 EDT

I have tried on two different machines with two different distributions of Linux
(Gentoo and Slackware).

M8 does not start up on these platforms.  I have used the following scenarios
with no success at all:

Scenario 1)  Start eclipse with no arguments.  I see the splash screen, then a
dialog pops up asking me to specify my workspace folder.  I select the default
and check off 'don't ask again'.  After a few seconds, I get an error telling me
that the folder is in use.  I click ok and it returns me to the select workspace
dialog again.  This will repeat indefinately until I cancel the dialog.  In my
.metadata folder (in the created workspace folder), the only file that exists is
.lock (which is 0 bytes).  No .log file exists to check for errors.

Scenario 2)  Start eclipse with the -vm argument.  I see the exact same results
as in Scenario 1.

Scenario 3)  Start eclipse with the -vm and -data arguments.  I see the splash
screen.  After a few secons, I get an error dialog that tells me that it cannot
set the workspace ('error in runtime').  Again, no .log file in the
workspace/.metadata folder.

I've tried this on two different linux ditributions: Gentoo 1.4.10 and Slackware
9.1.  Both distributions are using ReiserFS partitions.  Gentoo is running 2.6.5
kernel with the core modules compiled (net card, sound card, USB, etc.  No
'fancy' modules like v4l, etc).  Slackware is running a stock 9.1 (2.4.25)
kernel.  Neither machine is using NFS.

Hardware on both machines is: Intel P4 1.4Ghz CPUs w/ 512Mb Rambus memory,
nVidia 5600 Ultra video cards.