Eclipse crashing at startup

[mahadevans87]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my eclipse working.. installed jdk 1.6.0_17 (latest) , set classpath, nd when i try to run eclipse I get the following error..

JVM terminated. Exit code=-1
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-Djava.class.path=/home/mahadevan/Downloads/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v2009071 5.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-showsplash /home/mahadevan/Downloads/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.3.201.v200909170800/splash.bmp
-launcher /home/mahadevan/Downloads/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /home/mahadevan/Downloads/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.200 .v20090520/eclipse_1206.so
-startup /home/mahadevan/Downloads/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v2009071 5.jar
-product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
-vm /opt/jre1.6.0_17_i586/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-Djava.class.path=/home/mahadevan/Downloads/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v2009071 5.jar

---------- Post added at 09:49 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 PM CST ----------

K i found the cause for the crash... It was due to a conflict b/w openJDK and Sun's JDK

I ran ./eclipse -vm /path/to/my/jre and whoopy it worked!