Public bug reported:
I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 on Friday. Following some reboots and
updates this morning I am now unable to start the Eclipse IDE. This was
working before the upgrade.
I have the C++ developer support added to Eclipse. To the best of my
memory (and ability to interrogate apt) it is all installed from the
Ubuntu repositories.
When I click the Eclipse launcher pinned to my side bat I get an error message
from Eclipse that reads:
An error has occurred. See the log file
/home/thomas/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/1532947738216.log
Viewing the log file I see:
!SESSION Mon Jul 30 11:48:58 BST 2018 ------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2018-07-30 11:48:58.229
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter
at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:466)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:566)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:626)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:584)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1438)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1414)
This is easily repeatable.
Some internet searching suggests this problem is present upstream as
there is a Debian bug that looks similar: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891956
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: eclipse 3.8.1-11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 30 11:43:38 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-16 (255 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eclipse
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-07-27 (3 days ago)
** Affects: eclipse (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: eclipse (Debian)
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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Title:
Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04
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