Looking at your log this line is a warning sign for me: > java.fullversion=GNU libgcj 3.4.4 20050209 (prerelease) (Debian > 3.4.3-9ubuntu4) It seems to me that you are trying to use an Eclipse build natively compiled using gcj. Here's how I'm using it. With a sun java vm and the Linux (x86/GTK 2) build of Eclipse. -- bonifacio