[news.eclipse.technology.epf] Re: EPF fails starting user interface due

[exquisitus <ashkan.kh.nazary@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bing wrote:
> exquisitus wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I don't no if I should report this as bug so I thought newsgroup is 
> > the place to start.
> >
> > I have a FC7 RH Linux which works fine. PHP 2.5.x and Apche 2.2.x are 
> > installed and running well along with PDT (PHP Development Tools) 
> > final stable release.
> >
> > I downloaded EPF 1.2.0 (Stable release) and final nightly build. Both 
> > fail to start during initializing phase (when the splash screen and 
> > progress screen bar are showed) with following message:
> >
> > Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> > org.eclipse.epf.authoring.ui.AuthoringPerspective
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.epf.rcp.ui.MainWorkbenchAdvisor.getInitialWindowPerspectiveId(Unknown 
> > Source)
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.getDefaultPerspectiveId(Workbench.java:2828) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.registry.PerspectiveRegistry.verifyDefaultPerspective(PerspectiveRegistry.java:627) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.registry.PerspectiveRegistry.load(PerspectiveRegistry.java:406) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPlugin.getPerspectiveRegistry(WorkbenchPlugin.java:561) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.getPerspectiveRegistry(Workbench.java:1191) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.doOpenFirstTimeWindow(Workbench.java:1844) 
> >
> >    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$29(Workbench.java:1834)
> >    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$45.run(Workbench.java:1794)
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runStartupWithProgress(Workbench.java:1820) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.openFirstTimeWindow(Workbench.java:1792) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchConfigurer.openFirstTimeWindow(WorkbenchConfigurer.java:190) 
> >
> >    at 
> > org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor$1.run(WorkbenchAdvisor.java:785) 
> >
> >
> > I tried the so called -data and -nolock command line parameters with 
> > no success.
> >
> > Should I report this as a bug or perhaps a misconfiguration in my Java 
> > settings?
> >
> > I appreciate your help in advance.
>
> Could you spell out what is FC7 RH Linux? Is it Fedora? If so, we have 
> not tested it on it as it's not an officially supported platform.
>
> Thanks.
> Bing.
FC means Fedora Core and RH means Red Hat :-) . I solved the problem by 
the way. It was due to my Java (GCI, JCI or something like this!!!). I 
replaced the Java and it appears to work fine now. Thanks by the way.