Aptana Studio 3 causes xserver to crash

[halfbeing]

I have been using Aptana Studio 3 3.4.1 today and it has caused my xsession to crash several times. I find myself looking at an ASCII console. This only happens when I am actively working with Aptana Studio 3. It happens while doing various actions in Aptana such as browsing directories or editing html files. it didn't happen the last time I used Aptana, which was well over a year ago. There have been reports on the web of Aptana crashing after upgrading to 14.04, but none I can find mention the xserver dying.

What should happen: If Aptana has to crash the xserver should not come down with it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-lowlatency 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-lowlatency x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,staticswitcher,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,dbus]
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Jun 15 02:11:56 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-04-22 22:09:41,660 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 4.3.10, 3.11.0-19-lowlatency, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 4.3.10, 3.13.0-24-lowlatency, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 4.3.10, 3.13.0-27-lowlatency, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 4.3.10, 3.13.0-29-lowlatency, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61 [17aa:20b5]
   Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61 [17aa:20b5]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-22 (296 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
LightdmGreeterLog:
 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:11772): WARNING **: Failed to load user background: Failed to open file '/home/robert/Software/media/ermintrude/magic-5381036.jpg': Permission denied

 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:11772): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/robert/.face': Permission denied
 g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
LightdmGreeterLogOld:
 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:7785): WARNING **: Failed to load user background: Failed to open file '/home/robert/Software/media/ermintrude/magic-5381036.jpg': Permission denied

 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:7785): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/robert/.face': Permission denied
MachineType: LENOVO 8932A11
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-29-lowlatency root=UUID=f1989b61-4b06-420e-aee7-92d83832e7fb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (53 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/28/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7OET24WW (1.03 )
dmi.board.name: 8932A11
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7OET24WW(1.03):bd06/28/2007:svnLENOVO:pn8932A11:pvrThinkPadR61/R61i:rvnLENOVO:rn8932A11:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 8932A11
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad R61/R61i
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Sun Jun 15 02:07:56 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 16464
 vendor LEN
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

[halfbeing (halfbeing)]

I now suspect that the issue may be something to do with Open Java. I switched to Oracle Java this morning and so far I have not had a crash, although it is still early days. I will let you know if I do get another xserver crash.

However I am leaving this as an xorg bug because a misbehaving Java environment should not be able to bring the xserver down.

[halfbeing (halfbeing)]

With reference to my previous post, I have just had another xserver crash while using Aptana with Oracle Java, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with Open Java after all.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gergely (gergely001)]

@halfbeing: did you find any workaround?
It seems that nothing is going to happen with this.
Did you find a good replacement of aptana?
Thanks.

[halfbeing (halfbeing)]

To be honest I can't remember what I did. It was a couple of months back that I was working on my web site. I have a feeling I may have somehow finished the job in Aptana, because I can't remember sticking with any alternative software. I have both version 3.4.1 and 3.4.2 on my machine, so perhaps I used 3.4.2, but I can't remember for certain. I don't want to test it right now because I am in the middle of something and I don't want any crashes. I can't remember where I got 3.4.2 from either, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. I hope that helps at least a little.

[Gergely (gergely001)]

Ok, thanks.
I have upgraded to the latest version and it seems ok.
Whenever I started Aptana checking the editor was the first.
I think I always crashed it before it could offer the updates :)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

halfbeing, as per http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-r-series-laptops/thinkpad-r61 an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (2.24). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette .

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, and the information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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