Comment 13 for bug 188380

I had the same error, after the installation of hardy, but in my case it was to reuse the previous installation of eclipse not made by deb packages but using the package directly to the producer.

In essence, run the executable eclipse does not create automatically
~ / .mozilla / Eclipse
if it isn't present
Also, in my case, it was even impossible to close the application without making
kill -9 number_processor_eclipse

Thanks Johannes Braun for the solution. :-)