This generic error message can rear its ugly head if you’re recently installed or upgraded a plugin or Eclipse extension via the internal process or through a package manager such as yum or aptitude.

===For the PC===

Make sure you don’t have multiple versions of RPM packages installed. I fixed this once where tomcat-common-lib and tomcast5-jasper-javadoc and tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc both had two versions installed. If I remember correctly, the two versions were 5.5.23-9 and 5.5.27.0.

Also check all your permissions, it could be as simple as something’s not set to 0755 when it should be.

If you have a Windows installation handy, try coping the org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_x.x.x *directory* from an Eclipse Windows installation to your Eclipse application plugin directory. I used org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_x.x.x is located in Eclipse 3.3M6 SDK plugin directory. org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_x.x.x.jar plugin may also be necessary.

===For the Mac===

I haven’t seen this problem, but I ran across this fix for the problem on a Mac, so i’ll repost it.

Edit eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini:

====Change the following:====
–launcher.library
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.carbon.macosx_1.0.100.v20080509-1800

====To:====
–launcher.library
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.carbon.macosx_1.0.101.R34x_v20080731

Posted on November 30th, by admica in apps, programming.

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