Eclipse 3.3 crash at startup

[Leonardo Camargo]

Eclipse have been crashing on me randomly for quite some time now(and tweaking eclipse.ini variables didn't help), but now it won't even start at all. Eclipse closes itself before leaving the splash screen.

The problem also happens the exact same way if I change the jvm to java-6-sun.
I've attached the error log(which repeats itself every time).

Here's the reader of the log:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb720571b, pid=5505, tid=3074545424
#
# Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (14.0-b08 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04, package 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10
# Problematic frame:
# C [libgail.so+0x2171b]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions how to reproduce the bug and visit:
# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

[Leonardo Camargo (flueedo)]

Deleting my workspace made eclipse available again, but having this as only resort for the problem is terrible.

[Ludovic Claude (ludovicc)]

Assign to Eclipse package as this bug affects only Eclipse

[skarootz (hablutzel1)]

Hi, this happens to me too with eclipse Galileo 3.5

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb413e71b, pid=3576, tid=3076983696
#
# JRE version: 6.0_14-b08
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.0-b16 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [libgail.so+0x2171b]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!
If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories - information regarding managing repositories.

[larytet (larytet-48904418)]

Confirmed under Ubuntu

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x009218d2, pid=14277, tid=3079038656
#
# JRE version: 6.0_16-b01
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.2-b01 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [libgail.so+0x388d2]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

See log file http://larytet-master.googlecode.com/files/hs_err_pid14277.log

[larytet (larytet-48904418)]

another crash

$ eclipse/eclipse

(eclipse:14421): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x0053d856, pid=14421, tid=3078133440
#
# JRE version: 6.0_16-b01
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.2-b01 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [libpango-1.0.so.0+0x23856] pango_layout_new+0x36
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/xxx/hs_err_pid14421.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.

Log
http://larytet-master.googlecode.com/files/hs_err_pid14421.log

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi larytet

As Benjamin wrote, we cannot support eclipse downloaded directly from eclipse.org.

Furthermore, eclipse has extracted shared libraries into your home folder (~/.eclipse), which means the crash will persist even after you install eclipse from Ubuntu (from 9.10 or 10.04, older Ubuntu versions may have a broken eclipse). Please rename/remove ~/.eclipse after installing eclipse from Ubuntu and before running it the first time.

Thank you in advance,
~Niels