"Error while loading manipulator"
You can try to follow the various suggestions mentioned in the bug 277242
Also check your eclipse.ini:
More generally, the error you're seeing can happen when we cannot read "
-startup
" since we use this to position the install.area.
As suggested by Jelle van Geuns in the comments (and confirmed by Halfstop):
I found that one MacOS there are two folders (MacOS and Eclipse) with two separate sets of configuration files.
Each had an 'org.eclipse.equinox.launcher
' startup jar in the plugins sub-folder, but with slightly different versions.The Eclipse executable resides in the MacOS folder.
But theeclipse.ini
there was set up to look for the startup jar underEclipse/plugins
, but with the wrong version.Solution that worked for me was to copy both versions of the
startup.jar
to both the plugins sub-folders.
Halfstop confirms:
I copied all of the what was in Eclipse to the MacOS directory and this solved it.
I just ran into this problem today. The answer provided by VonC et al helped to locate the problem but didn't quite fix it.
In my case, the location specified in -startup
within the MacOS/eclipse.ini
was incorrectly looking in the ../Eclipse/plugins
folder rather than the ../MacOS/plugins
folder.
I corrected the path and the error went away.