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When I try to start Eclipse 3.0.1 on my gentoo box using the Sun 1.4.2
JDK, it fails with a file locking error reported in the log file.
Caused by: java.io.IOException: An error occurred while locking file
"/home/edward/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.0.1/configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.manager/.fileTableLock":
"Value too large for defined data type". A probably reason is that the
file system or Runtime Environment does not support file locking. You
may want to choose a different location, or disable file locking (using
the osgi.locking property), but this can cause data corruption.
The filesystem is ext3; and I can't see anything amiss with permissions
and ownership - in any case, Eclipse creates everything in the .eclipse
tree.
Any clues as to what this might be about and suggestions as to how to
fix it would be welcome.
I have tried both the binary version downloaded from the eclispe site
and the Gentoo ebuild (compiled from source), and the same error occurs.
More information from the error file:
!SESSION Feb 28, 2005 07:37:48.489
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eclipse.buildId=200409161125
java.version=1.4.2-gentoo
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US