Cannot start Eclipse with either IcedTea or Oracle Java

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 20:57, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
> On 3 November 2011 07:20, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Kubuntu 11.0, when I try to start Eclipse I get this crash:
>> ✈saturn:~$ eclipse
>> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> Oh I really hate the new gmail interface...
>
> OK, I had the time so I created a brand new VM from the 64 bit
> kubuntu-alternate CD. After doing apt-get update && apt-get
> dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras eclipse
> virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 and then a reboot, everything works here.
> Eclipse pops up with the standard icedtea w/o a problem. I don't have
> the canberra-gtk-module installed, the only two things I have here
> are:
>
> hakan at kubuntutest:~$ dpkg -l|grep canb
> ii  libcanberra-pulse                     0.28-0ubuntu11
>            PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
> ii  libcanberra0                          0.28-0ubuntu11
>            a simple abstract interface for playing event sounds
>

Thanks, Hakan!

I just erased my default workspace and configured another, and now
Eclipse starts fine. I wonder what was wrong with that workspace.

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