[News.eclipse.test-and-performance] "IllegalArgumentException:Argument c

["cj" <cj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

sorry for the post to several groups, but we are hitting the wall trying to
figure out why this exception is being thrown and thus preventing Eclipse
3.0 from starting up. Can anyone help?

We are trying to run Eclipse 3.0 on Solaris while connecting to it from
Windows XP pro using Reflection.
We are calling it with:

<eclipse_dir>$ ./eclipse -vm <java_1.4.2_dir>/bin/java -vmargs -Xm512M

The splash screen comes up, then there is a dialog box indicating that there
was an error and that the details have been saved into a log file in the
./configuration directory. Here is the contents of such file:

!SESSION Aug 12, 2004
18:10:16.784 ---------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I200406251208
java.version=1.4.2_05
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=solaris, ARCH=sparc, WS=motif, NL=en

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi Aug 12, 2004 18:10:16.787
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2677)
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2616)
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2587)
        at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Font.<init>(Font.java:106)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.resource.FontRegistry.calculateDefaultFont(FontRegistry.java:412)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.resource.FontRegistry.defaultFontRecord(FontRegistry.java:430)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.resource.FontRegistry.getFontRecord(FontRegistry.java:519)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.resource.FontRegistry.get(FontRegistry.java:472)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.resource.JFaceResources.getDialogFont(JFaceResources.java:182)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.initializeDialogUnits(Dialog.java:778)
        at
org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.TitleAreaDialog.createContents(TitleAreaDialog.java:93)
        at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:348)
        at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:925)
        at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:637)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.ChooseWorkspaceDialog.prompt(ChooseWorkspaceDialog.java:65)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.promptForWorkspace(IDEApplication.java:314)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.checkInstanceLocation(IDEApplication.java:219)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:83)
        at
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:335)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:273)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:129)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:183)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)