[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Eclipse will not start

[Alex Blewitt <automatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like you're using a mixture of Eclipse 3.0 and 3.1 and that this is causing some confusions.

Get rid of the existing Eclipse install, both in where you've installed it (e.g. /usr/share/eclipse, or whatever) and your Eclipse workspace metadata location (.eclipse, or ~/workspace/.metadata). I don't know the defaults for Linux off the top of my head.

Then, unzip a fresh copy of Eclipse and start it up, and it should create things as necessary.

The important point is to get rid of existing stuff (like the configuration/ and .metadata/ directories) as these hold onto cached information that can cause this type of problem. You might find that a -clean on the command line (eclipse -clean) helps too.

Alex.