I’ve had some problems with Eclipse 3.3, Ubuntu 8.04 and Java JVM 1.6, just crashing mostly. There are a slew of fixes out there, but this simple fix has seemed to work so far…
Edit eclipse.ini to explicitly add details for the vm Eclipse needs to use:
-vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
HTH.






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