org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed] while running eclipse on ubuntu

Unix & Linux: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed] while running eclipse on ubuntu
The Question: I was trying to open eclipse in my ubuntu VM with the below commmand.. And as
soon as I do that, I always get the below exception -
ubuntu@username-dyn-vm1-48493:~$ eclipse
Eclipse:
An error has occurred. See the log file
/home/ubuntu/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/
1381367113197.log.
so when I went to that particular log file, this is what I can see in the log -
ubuntu@username-dyn-vm1-48493:~$ more /home/ubuntu/.eclipse/
org.eclipse.platform_3.8_155965261/configuration/1381367113197.log
!SESSION 2013-10-10 01:05:13.088 ----------------------------------------------
-
eclipse.buildId=debbuild
java.version=1.7.0_25
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2013-10-10 01:05:17.555
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed]
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4387)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Display.java:914)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Display.java:900)
at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.＜init＞(Device.java:156)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.＜init＞(Display.java:498)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.＜init＞(Display.java:489)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:716)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:161)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.createDisplay
(IDEApplication.java:154)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start
(IDEApplication.java:96)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run
(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication
(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start
(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
(EclipseStarter.java:353)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
(EclipseStarter.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke
(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke
(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
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== This solution helped 4 people ==
I think this is a problem with gtk. Check what version is installed.
dpkg -l libgtk[0-9]* | grep ^i
If it's not installed or is the incorrect version then do a sudo apt-get
install gtk or do an sudo apt-get update.
EDIT
The problem was that SSH was using SSH to remote into a Linux VM and didn't
have an X-Server set up on Windows and didn't have X11 forwarding enabled.
After getting that straightened out the OP shouldn't have any issues running
Eclipse.

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