Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Jim Hayward <jimhayward(a)earthlink.net> [2007-09-18 19:57]:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:23 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>
>> I'm not seeing this on x86_64 or x86 with IcedTea or gcj. Note that you
>> shouldn't run Eclipse as root because it modifies files in
>> /usr/share/eclipse if it can write there which can then mess up future
>> running as a regular user.
>>
> Interesting. I only tried running it as root AFTER I could not start
> Eclipse as my normal user.
>
> The F8T2 was a clean install, leaving my old home partition unformatted.
> I didn't have any problems previously running Eclipse in F7.
>
> I'll try uninstalling/reinstalling Eclipse, making
> sure /usr/share/eclipse is empty and try again.
>
I don't *think* this should cause a problem, but try temporarily moving
~/.eclipse out of the way and see if that fixes it.
Andrew
I was on a totally fresh installed system, so there is no old
~/.eclipse to mess up things.
Tim