Updated F8T2 x86_64 - Can't run Eclipse 3.3.0-19.fc8 as normal user

[Tim Lauridsen]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * Jim Hayward <jimhayward at 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
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