I guess ~/.vim/eclim beaing a (dead) symlink was the reason for my installation to fail. This is the output i got was as follows, after deleting the symlink everything went fine.
2011-02-07 13:59:28,…
Deleting a file in the package explorer doesn't close the file in the editor if the file has been modified (has an asterisk in the filename). I create a Scala package and a class or application in it.…