Problem:
Yesterday evening, I applied some updates regarding OpenJDK that
were offered automatically. I have installed both OpenJDK 6 and 7. I
still can run Java applications outside of Eclipse, but not in Eclipse
any more. Further, if in Eclipse, I open Preferences and select Java >
"Installed JREs", the view is empty except of the following message:
"An error has occurred when creating this preference page."
A separate dialogue opens which says:
"Unable to create the selected preference page.
An error occurred while automatically activating bundle
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui (322)."
Solution:
Putting this line
-Dcom.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone.DefaultTimeZoneType=ICU
at the end of eclipse.ini seems to have solved the issue.