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Eclipse breaks on update

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked error message and log, then reproduce the update failure on Pop!_OS 20.04 with Eclipse. Check the reported workaround, flatpak run org.eclipse.Java -clean, and investigate the remaining need to reinstall CDT and other extensions. Done means Eclipse starts after updating without losing extensions.

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Description

bug

After updating Eclipse, it fails to start afterwards.
This is the error message that is displayed when launching Eclipse.
Here's the log that is mentioned in the error message.

OS: Pop!_OS 20.04

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After looking in the closed issues, I've found that the issue with starting Eclipse after update is resolved with launching Eclipse with command flatpak run org.eclipse.Java -clean.

The only issue that persists is that extensions (ie. CDT) need to be reinstalled.

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