debian eclipse problem

[rituraj.goswami]

i installed debian 5.0 and tried starting eclipse. i generated an error while starting for the for 1st time.done it 5 times and then reinstalled it. the error is ;

jvmterminated exit code 127

[xr0dr]

have you installed sun java sdk???

[rituraj.goswami]

yeah i installed the original sdk from sun webiste

[coopstah13]

what is output of these commands?

which java
echo $JAVA_HOME

if neither of these points to your jdk installation, it could be your problem

[xr0dr]

you may have to set the environment variables in your $HOME/.bashrc

add the path of Java installation.

try it

(replace with your sdk installation path)
export PATH="/opt/SDK/jdk/bin:$PATH"
export JAVA_HOME="/opt/SDK/jdk"

then, save changes and close your session, logon and try:

echo $JAVA_HOME

the output must be "/opt/SDK/jdk"

[rituraj.goswami]

this is the exact error genereated:

JVM terminated. Exit code=127
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=nev er
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 208018
-install /usr/lib/eclipse
-vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
-vmargs
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=nev er
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar

[rituraj.goswami]

the command
which java
results in
/usr/bin/java

the commad echo $JAVA_HOME doesn't return anytthing.

[coopstah13]

based on your errors, eclipse is trying to start using openjdk and not the sun jdk, you need to put sun jdk on your path before the openjdk, also I recommend setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to sunjdk as well