[alanq]

Just installed Eclipse 3.2 (clean) with MyEclipse 5.0 Trial. I can go into Eclipse and see the MyEclipse features, but every time I click one of the MyEclipse information sections from the Welcome Screen (such as “My Eclipse Common Tools” under “Overview”) Eclipse locks up and I have to close it abnormally.

Can someone tell me if this works for them?

Thanks.

Windows XP, on an AMD 64 machine, 1 meg RAM, java version 1.6.0 release candidate (possible culprit?)

[Scott Anderson]

Well, the 1.6 release candidate has known problems with both Eclipse and MyEclipse so I’d start there. You can launch Eclipse with a particular jvm by using the -vm flag like:
eclipse.exe -clean -vm <path-to-jvm>\bin\javaw.exe … rest of args

I’d also suggest starting with -clean (as shown) in addition to rebuild the plugin cache since it will surely need it the first time with the VM change. After the first successful restart, you can ditch the -clean flag.

[alanq]

It is 1.6 problem.

Forcing eclipse to use the latest version of 1.5 from the command line as you describe fixes the problem.

[Riyad Kalla]

Thank you for following up.

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