[platform-dev] Cannot launch Eclipse on RedHat Fedora 2

[Ihor Bobak <ibobak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have Fedora 2. Previously I did the same steps on Red Hat 9 under VMWare -
everything worked fine.

1) Downloaded j2re-1.4.2_05-linux-i586-rpm from the Sun's site. It is 
the latest
available Linux on their site. Installed it.
2) added /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin to the path
3) downloaded eclipse-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip and unpacked it.
4) launched Eclipse

On my Fedora 2 I've got the error message box with text:
An error has occurred.  See the log file
/opt/eclipse/configuration/1089757533425.log

The contents of the file is as specified below.  Seems that some java 
exception occurs.
Strange, since this exception does NOT occur on RedHat 9 (as I said) - 
it occurs only
on Fedora 2.

Can anyone help me what to do in this case?
How to make the Eclipse running?

================ CONTENTS OF ERROR FILE ==================

!SESSION Jul 14, 2004 01:26:02.377 
---------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I200406251208
java.version=1.4.2_05
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi Jul 14, 2004 01:26:02.380
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception while creating System Bundle: 
Unable to
find system bundle manifest file.
   at
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.createSystemBundle(Framework.java:253)
   at
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:152)
   at 
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:95)
   at 
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.createFramework(OSGi.java:90)
   at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.<init>(OSGi.java:31)
   at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:215)
   at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:127)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:183)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)
!SESSION Wed Jul 14 01:26:02 EEST 2004 
-----------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Jul 14, 2004 01:26:02.383
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:138)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:183)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
   at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)