managed to work around this problem, see this thread : http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/PNphpBB2-printview-t-4344-start-0.html
apparently, during uninstall/reinstall some library/properties ... is being persisted. anyway, purge all packages, do a reboot (or drop to runlevel 3 and back to 5) and then start reinstalling. got my eclipse back, doh! -- eclipse won't start of Fesity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109583 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs