Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-11 Thread Jakub Adam
Hi, On 11.8.2012 05:18, JS wrote: I retried your suggestion but never got the console to look for the output you suggested. Below is all I saw (also tried adding the -clean option, with the same result). jack@berkeley:~ = eclipse -console -consoleLog -noExit !SESSION 2012-08-10 23:05:56.732

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-11 Thread JS
Jakub, I tried your suggestion and got exactly the same error, details below. This isn't surprising since the eclipse 3.8 blob from eclipse.org runs perfectly on my system, so any packages needed for eclipse 3.8 had to be already present. Here are the details:

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-10 Thread JS
Jakub, I retried your suggestion but never got the console to look for the output you suggested. Below is all I saw (also tried adding the -clean option, with the same result). Oracle/Sun java is needed for some applications I use as unfortunately they don't work well with open-jdk-7, so I

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-06 Thread Jakub Adam
Hi, On 6.8.2012 04:41, JS wrote: I ran the eclipse 3.8.0 gotten straight from eclipse.org, without any change to my existing configuration or selection of java alternatives (of Oracle jre) and it ran perfectly fine. Further, I did not run eclipse as root. Tarball from Eclipse.org is quite

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-06 Thread JS
Jakub, Thanks for the info. It will take me some time to setup the test with the OSGi console as I'll have to rollback my system when it's done, won't get to that before this weekend. However what I cannot do is run without the latest Oracle java: that's the only one thatreally works properly

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application service

2012-08-05 Thread js
Package: eclipse Version: 3.7.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After upgrading from eclipse 3.7.2-1 to 3.8.0~rc4-1, eclipse no longer starts. One sees the initial splash screen, followed by a error dialog that the configuration is wrong, although the same config worked with 3.7.2-1.

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-05 Thread Jakub Adam
Hi, installation of Eclipse into a clean sid system works for me. As you say you got an error even when config is removed, I think it's a different local issue. Here are some tips for further investigation: 1. Try to run Eclipse with OpenJDK 6 to make sure it's not a problem specific to

Bug#683930: eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1 exits with log error: Unable to acquire application

2012-08-05 Thread JS
Jakub, I ran the eclipse 3.8.0 gotten straight from eclipse.org, without any change to my existing configuration or selection of java alternatives (of Oracle jre) and it ran perfectly fine. Further, I did not run eclipse as root. If the same upstream source works fine on my system but the