[news.eclipse.newcomer] Problems with new eclipse installation

[sumitb@xxxxxx (Sumit Bhattacharyya)]

Hi,

I've successfully (?) installed eclipse on my machine. But when I start 
it, I get an error message which seems to be related to my CLASSPATH.
It is the following error in the log file:
"!SESSION Apr 15, 2005 12:34:23.442 
---------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M200503110845
java.fullversion=GNU libgcj 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=amd64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi Apr 15, 2005 12:34:23.443
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: while resolving class: 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseAdapto
r
  at java.lang.VMClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.Class.initializeClass() (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean, 
java.lang.ClassLoader) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so
5.0.0)
  at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.createAdaptor() 
(Unknown Source)
  at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(java.lang.String[], 
java.lang.Runnable)
(Unknown Source)
  at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(java.lang.String[], 
java.lang.Runnable) (Un
known Source)
  at _Jv_CallAnyMethodA(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Class, _Jv_Method, 
boolean, boolean, java.lang.C
lass[], jvalue, jvalue, boolean) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_CallAnyMethodA(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Class, _Jv_Method, 
boolean, java.lang.Class[], j
ava.lang.Object[]) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown 
Source)
  at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown 
Source)
  at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown 
Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler not found in [file:/u
sr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.0.1/core.jar, 
file:/usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse
osgi_3.0.1/console.jar, 
file:/usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.0.1/osgi.jar, 
file:/usr/l
ocal/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.0.1/resolver.jar, 
file:/usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse
osgi_3.0.1/defaultAdaptor.jar, 
file:/usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.0.1/eclipseAdaptor
jar]
  at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_FindClass(_Jv_Utf8Const, java.lang.ClassLoader) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_ClassReader.handleClassBegin(int, int, int) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_ClassReader.parse() (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_DefineClass(java.lang.Class, byte[], int, int) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.VMClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.ClassLoader, 
java.lang.String, byte[], int, int,
java.security.ProtectionDomain) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String, byte[], int, 
int, java.security.ProtectionD
omain) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String, 
byte[], int, int, java.security.C
odeSource) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_FindClass(_Jv_Utf8Const, java.lang.ClassLoader) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_PrepareCompiledClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_WaitForState(java.lang.Class, int) (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.VMClassLoader.linkClass0(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.VMClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  ...10 more
!SESSION Fri Apr 15 12:34:23 GMT-01:00 2005 
------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Apr 15, 2005 12:34:23.508
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.NullPointerException
  at java.lang.Object.getClass() (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)"


The system is RedHat ES 4, amd-64 binaries.

Thanks for any hint,
Sumit