eclipse won't start - no java virtual machine was found

Question

Eclipse was running fine yesterday (and has been since I installed it about a year ago). Now all the sudden I\'m getting the following error on startup:

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Answer 1

On Centos 7 I fixed this problem (after a big yum upgrade) by changing my setting for vm in:

~/eclipse/java-oxygen/eclipse/eclipse.ini

to:

-vm
/etc/alternatives/jre/bin

(which will always point to the latest installed java)