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Eclipse does not run on x84 system [message #500853]

Sun, 29 November 2009 17:38

Markus Mehrwald

Messages: 14
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi @ll,

I have a real big problem. I downloaded galileo and ganymede as well but both of the are not running on my x64 Fedora 12 system. I tried to get them run with an old workspace which did not work. Then I created a new one because I thought somethings wrong with the workspace. This does not change anything.
Eclipse starts without any problems but then I can do hardly anything. Adding new update sites shows me the dialog to enter URL's but the OK button does nothing. I have to click somewhere else before the cancel button works. The same with new servers and so on.
It feels like my prototype ui's where I do not implement listeners on the buttons.

Can anybody tell me please where the problem is? Unfortunately there are no logfiles created so I cannot help with them.

Regards,
Markus

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Re: Eclipse does not run on x84 system [message #500859 is a reply to message #500853]

Sun, 29 November 2009 19:27

Francis Upton IV

Messages: 472
Registered: July 2009
Location: Oakland, CA

Senior Member

There should be a log file in your workspace/.metadata/.log. Is that not created? What were you running when things last worked?

I assume you mean an x86_64 system (64 bit) and you are using the 64-bit Java (a 32 bit Eclipse should not even start with a 64-bit Java). Also make sure you are using the Java JRE from Sun. I think there are issues with the Java that comes normally with Fedora. In fact, that's likely your problem.

Platform UI Committer for Common Navigator

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Common_Navigator_Framework
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/topic/org.eclipse.platform.d oc.isv/guide/cnf.htm

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Re: Eclipse does not run on x84 system [message #500861 is a reply to message #500853]

Sun, 29 November 2009 20:19

David Wegener

Messages: 1445
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Markus Mehrwald wrote:
> Hi @ll,
>
> I have a real big problem. I downloaded galileo and ganymede as well but
> both of the are not running on my x64 Fedora 12 system. I tried to get
> them run with an old workspace which did not work. Then I created a new
> one because I thought somethings wrong with the workspace. This does not
> change anything.
> Eclipse starts without any problems but then I can do hardly anything.
> Adding new update sites shows me the dialog to enter URL's but the OK
> button does nothing. I have to click somewhere else before the cancel
> button works. The same with new servers and so on. It feels like my
> prototype ui's where I do not implement listeners on the buttons.
>
> Can anybody tell me please where the problem is? Unfortunately there are
> no logfiles created so I cannot help with them.
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
This is a known problem between SWT and the newer versions of Gtk and is
coming up quite a bit on the Eclipse newsgroups. Please see the bug
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257 You need to set
the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable as it says.

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