newly-installed eclipse fails to start

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm sure i've done something silly but on my fully-updated ubuntu
10.10 system, i installed eclipse (having had it on this system a
while back), so this is my current situation:

$ dpkg -l "*eclipse*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version          Description
+++-================-================-================================================
ii  eclipse          3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE
un  eclipse-common-n <none>           (no description available)
un  eclipse-cvs      <none>           (no description available)
un  eclipse-ecj      <none>           (no description available)
ii  eclipse-jdt      3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT)
un  eclipse-jdt-gcj  <none>           (no description available)
ii  eclipse-pde      3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
un  eclipse-pde-gcj  <none>           (no description available)
ii  eclipse-platform 3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Eclipse platform without plug-ins to develop any
un  eclipse-platform <none>           (no description available)
ii  eclipse-platform 3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Eclipse platform without plug-ins to develop any
un  eclipse-platform <none>           (no description available)
un  eclipse-platform <none>           (no description available)
ii  eclipse-plugin-c 3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Eclipse Team Integration (CVS support)
ii  eclipse-rcp      3.6.0-0ubuntu1~p Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
un  eclipse-rcp-gcj  <none>           (no description available)
un  eclipse-source   <none>           (no description available)
un  libeclipse-jni   <none>           (no description available)
$

  now if i try to start eclipse with just typing:

$ eclipse

i get a brief flash of the eclipse "Helios" splashscreen in the middle
of my display, then ... nothing.  my current java situation is:

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_22"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode)
$

and if i run eclipse with shell debugging, i get:

$ sh -x /usr/bin/eclipse
+ export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
+ GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
++ /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9.2 --gre-version
+ export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.17
+ MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.17
+ ECLIPSE=/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
+ '[' '!' -d /home/rpjday/.eclipse/ ']'
+ exec /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
$

  is there something obvious i'm missing?  thanks.

rday

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
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