Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) gives SIGSEGV on F10

[RobG]

I posted this on FedoraForum too but got no response. I may just have to go back to F8, but thought I'd try here first.

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I'm stuck. My F8 installation was screwed, so I reinstalled with F10. Now Eclipse won't run on it. The newer one (3.4, Ganymeade) runs fine, but I need 3.3 (Europa) for some of the plug-ins that I use.

I've done a lot of searching, both here and out on Google. The only hint I got was that it didn't like the OpenJDK JRE that was installed with F10. So I downloaded and installed the latest JRE from Java.com, and pointed eclipse to it in its .ini file.

Now I get an actual dialog box from eclipse when it dies, the only thing that looks unusual is there's a line called -exitdata 28002. The rest of it is just a dump of the .ini file. Oh there is a mention of org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.01.R33x_v20080118.j ar but I don't know what that is.

Any ideas? I'm kinda dead in the water without being able to run Eclipse. I may have to see if it'll run under Ubuntu 8.10...

Thanks!

Rob

[Thrillhouse]

Do you get any more information when running eclipse from the command line?

[RobG]

Here are screen grabs of the two crashes. The first one is with the JRE included with F10. The second is with Sun's JRE from java.com.





Rob

[Thrillhouse]

Hmmm...it looks like the same error is being triggered by two different libraries. The OpenJDK error has to do with UTF-16.so which is part of the glibc package.
The second one is from a different shared library that's part of the xulrunner-libs package. Maybe re-installing those (or downgrading to an older version) will help.

I tried searching the Sun bug database for this problem and came up empty. There are a lot of reports of Eclipse crashing but they are all for different reasons. I found someone who had a similar problem with Ubuntu here and the suggestion was to downgrade all jdk/jre/jvm packages to 1.5. Maybe you can try that as well. If none of those work, I would file a bug report with Sun. You can do that at the link provided in your crash output.