MacOSX Snow Leopard and Eclipse: Error starting Eclipse (No Java virtual machine…)

Question

This is so frustrating.

I did no update of java nor eclipse and suddenly I can\'t open eclipse. I even didn\'t install any other programs. Here is the error:

Answer 1

OK, after a few days of struggling and with no luck on this thread and Eclipse forums THREAD I started a bounty for this question and had no correct answer.

I found a solution to this problem (this stack).

ANSWER:

You need to edit the Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist file and add two lines in it:

Nowhere stated that this lines had to go in Eclipse array but just somewhere up as key-string.

If you don't have Xcode, edit that file with textedit:

    Eclipse

    -vm
    /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/bin/java
    -keyring
    ~/.eclipse_keyring
    -showlocation