[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse Error

[Ankur Sharma <sharma.ankur@xxxxxxxxx>]

mgm2010 wrote:
> I had been using Eclipse SDK 3.0.1 on win98 after installing j2sdk 
> 1.4.2_19 for nearly 2 months and I had practised a number of codes. 
> Suddenly, one day it started giving the following error
>         " Could not find the main file. The system will close"
>
> 2. Thinking, perhaps, that the Eclipse file has gone corrupt, I deleted 
> it and copy/pasted again from the CD. Thereafter when I tried  to open 
> it, it gives out the following error and does not open.
>      "An error has occurred. See the log file i:\02( or l:\02 or j:\ 02 
> I cannot make out")
>
> 3. A very interesting phenomenon is that WHEN I OPEN IT FROM CD ROM, IT 
> WORKS FINE AND I CAN RUN ANY CODE.
>
> 4. A befuddling situation. Can someone help ??
>
> 5. In the meantime, I have started using JCreator.

1. Any particular reason you wish to use Eclipse 3.0.1 instead of latest 3.4.2?

2. Looks like a path issue.

3. If it works from CD, it SHOULD work from HDD too. Make sure the JDK you installed is marked system jvm. If I recall correctly its JDK_ROOT environment variable. Need to google to be sure.

4. Indead.

5. Wish you luck!!

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hth,
Ankur..