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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:00:00 +0100, Laura Schmidt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> maybe it helps someone. This is the solution:
> 
> 	chmod -R o+r /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.30
> 
> (It would have saved me many hours if eclipse prompted a comprehensive 
> error message.)
> 
> Laura

If you checked the Eclipse log at <workspacename>/.metadata/.log
it might have provided more information but there should have
been an error showing in Eclipse, I agree.

For your solution I'm not clear you won't run into new problems
by having Tomcat located in /opt but it might be fine.