Arch Linux

Description: Eclipse fails to start on a fresh installation.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to acquire application service. Ensure that the org.eclipse.core.runtime bundle is resolved and started (see config.ini).


Additional info:
pacman -Ss eclipse Mon 09 Oct
extra/eclipse-common 4.7.1-1 [installed]
Highly extensible IDE (common files)



Steps to reproduce:

ensure that there is no '~/.eclipse/' directory during installation
install eclipse-common

no config.ini is created in the '~/.eclispe/*' directories.

eclipse fails to start up.

cat 1507562192167.log
!SESSION 2017-10-09 17:16:32.037 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.8.0_144
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_ZA
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2017-10-09 17:16:32.369
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to acquire application service. Ensure that the org.eclipse.core.runtime bundle is resolved and started (see config.ini).
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:78)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:653)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:590)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1499)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1472)

I atempted to create a config.ini

cat ./config.ini Mon 09 Oct 2017 17:54:00 SAST
osgi.splashPath = platform:/base/plugins/org.eclipse.platform
osgi.bundles=org.eclipse.equinox.common@2:start, org.eclipse.update.configurator@3:start, org.eclipse.core.runtime@start
eclipse.product=org.eclipse.sdk.ide
osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/workspace
eof=eof

This tries to start eclipse and starts to create the various plugins folder in my user .eclipse directory.
But start fails again.

See attached log