[News.eclipse.foundation] Eclispe IDE crashing on Linux

[piyush.gupta@xxxxxx (Piyush GUPTA)]

Hi,

I appologise if this is not the correct group to post to (would appreciate
for directions, in that case).

However, I just downloaded the latest 3.01 release and can't get it to
start on my linux server.

The Linux host is: Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS/i686
(Pensacola)

Upon starting the ide using the following command:

$ /software/eclipse-motif/eclipse -vm /software/java1.4.2/jre/bin/java
-data $HOME/workspace &

The splash screen apears and then the IDE crashed with the follwoing error
message in the log file:

*****************************************************************************
!SESSION Oct 15, 2004 13:48:31.172
---------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I200406251208
java.version=1.4.2_04
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=motif, NL=en_US

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi Oct 15, 2004 13:48:31.174
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.themes.ThemeElementHelper.installFont(ThemeElementHelper.java:76)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.themes.ThemeElementHelper.populateRegistry(ThemeElementHelper.java:48)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.initializeFonts(Workbench.java:874)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.init(Workbench.java:783)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1325)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:254)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:141)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:96)
        at
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:335)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:273)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:129)
        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:183)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceConverter.<clinit>(PreferenceConverter.java:85)
        ... 18 more
******************************************************************************

Any help/pointers regarding this?

thanks,
-Piyush