[news.eclipse.newcomer] Error trying to get Eclipse to run

[Daniel Carbonell <dcarbonell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm a newbie trying to get Eclipse to work on my Mandrake Linux.

Every time I try to open it, I get keep getting the same message:

"An error has occurred.  See the log file /home/(...)/configuration/[x].log"

The content of the log file is the following:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi Feb 25, 2005 17:01:39.806
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.SystemBundleActivator.start() of
bundle org.eclipse.osgi.
   at
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles
(StartLevelManager.java:561)
   at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL
(StartLevelManager.java:477)
   at
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel
(StartLevelManager.java:273)
   at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.launch
(StartLevelManager.java:243)
   at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.SystemBundle.resume
(SystemBundle.java:166)
   at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.launch
(Framework.java:425)
   at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.launch (OSGi.java:51)
   at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup
(EclipseStarter.java:216)
   at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
(EclipseStarter.java:127)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0 (Method.java)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:255)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun (Main.java:185)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run (Main.java:704)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main (Main.java:688)
!SESSION Fri Feb 25 17:01:39 GMT+01:00 2005
------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Feb 25, 2005 17:01:39.906
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
(EclipseStarter.java:138)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke0 (Method.java)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:255)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun (Main.java:185)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run (Main.java:704)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main (Main.java:688)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I am using Java Version 2.1A released 11. February 2002

Could anyone please help me fix this? I don't really know which way to go
now...

Thanks in advance,

Dani