Ubuntu
eclipse package

eclipse startup script wrongly assumes the existence of a VM

Bug #102904 reported by Diego Torres Milano on 2007-04-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #45347: Eclipse uses /etc/eclipse/java_home instead of java-common scripts. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	eclipse (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: eclipse

If the only available VM (i.e: sun-java6) is not listed in /etc/eclipse/java_home, /usr/bin/eclipse startup script wrongly assumes the existence of the last one listed (i.e: /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun).
This problem is due to a JAVA_HOME exiting a loop with the last checked value.
A patch to solve this and also to provide the information of what VMs were searched is provided.