[natew]

A couple of days ago out of the blue, I became unable to launch eclipse. I’m not sure what changed, but the problem only seems to appear with the Darkest Dark Mode Theme plugin installed.

When I attempt to open Eclipse, it will show the splash screen and then the DevStyle workspace selection dialog. After I select a workspace it will show the launch progress bar with the fun little phrase and then it closes and a dialog with the title “Eclipse” pops up and says “An error has occurred. See the log file <my workspace directory>\.metadata.log.

The log file shows the following:

!SESSION 2023-06-28 12:21:03.152 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=4.20.0.I20210611-1600
java.version=17.0.1
java.vendor=Eclipse Adoptium
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product

!ENTRY org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt 4 2 2023-06-28 12:21:54.883
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt".
!STACK 0
java.lang.IllegalAccessError: class org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar tried to access private method 'void org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar$ToolBarPainter2.<init>(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar)' (org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar and org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar$ToolBarPainter2 are in unnamed module of loader org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.EquinoxClassLoader @6e564312), (Type org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar$ToolBarPainter2 (loader: org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.EquinoxClassLoader @6e564312) is not a nest member of type org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar (loader: org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.EquinoxClassLoader @6e564312): current type is not listed as a nest member)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolBar.<init>(ToolBar.java:180)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.StackRenderer.addTopRight(StackRenderer.java:655)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.StackRenderer.createWidget(StackRenderer.java:621)
...

I see the same error regardless of what JRE I use and what workspace I try to open.

In this example, I’m using Eclipse Temurin JDK 17.0.1.
Operating system: Wndows 10 Enterprise build 19045.3086
Eclipse Version: 2021-06 (4.20.0.I20210611-1600)

After spending a couple of days trying to hunt this down, I decided to reinstall eclipse (using 2021-06 again because my company is picky about only using versions that the security and legal team have vetted so we don’t get updates often, I know its dumb). My workspace loaded up just fine. Then I installed Darkest Dark Mode Theme and I started seeing the same errors.

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