Uncaught exception when starting ddms

[Sami Haahtinen]

When starting ddms from the console, I am presented with the following output/stack trace:

% ddms
09:32:15 E/ddms: shutting down due to uncaught exception
09:32:15 E/ddms: org/eclipse/jface/util/IPropertyChangeListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jface/util/IPropertyChangeListener
 at com.android.ddms.Main.main(Main.java:74)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jface.util.IPropertyChangeListener
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
 ... 1 more

I don't have eclipse installed and it wasn't a dependency for the package.

Behavior is seen on Ubuntu 14.04.1 with androidsdk-ddms version 22.2+git20130830~92d25d6-1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: androidsdk-ddms 22.2+git20130830~92d25d6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 17 09:32:47 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-16 (304 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: androidsdk-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-05 (164 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Christophe de Vienne (cdevienne)]

I am having the same issue.

Did anybody find the reason and/or a workaround ?