openJDK crashes on loading eclipse galileo and the latter crashes too

[eugenio]

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x04944e32, pid=1713, tid=2996214640
#
# JRE version: 6.0_18-b18
# Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (16.0-b13 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Derivative: IcedTea6 1.8
# Distribution: Ubuntu lucid (development branch), package 6b18~pre4-1ubuntu1
# Problematic frame:
# C [libmozjs.so+0x1ae32] js_NextActiveContext+0x16

My ubuntu version is: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 32-bit i-386

The problem occurs every time I try to load eclipse Galileo (v 3.5.2-2).

[avius (avi142)]

It appears this also affects me, I have very similar data in the message I get:
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x01685e32, pid=2039, tid=1518893936
#
# JRE version: 6.0_18-b18
# Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (16.0-b13 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Derivative: IcedTea6 1.8
# Distribution: Ubuntu lucid (development branch), package 6b18~pre4-1ubuntu1
# Problematic frame:
# C [libmozjs.so+0x1ae32] js_NextActiveContext+0x16
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# [EDIT - removed]/hs_err_pid2039.log
#
# 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/
#

However in my case, eclipse works fine until I try to open the hints menu (ctrl + space) then this happens.
(Instead of just crashing as soon as I start the program)

[avius (avi142)]

not sure if this is going to help anyone, but I managed to make my bug disappear entirely
I'm not exactly sure what fixed it; eclipse was crashing as I cycled through different java vm's in eclipse startup command. Then, I began to suspect that this bug was an issue with Mozilla (due to the libmozjs in log output). I think the only relevant changes I made to my system at this point was to add the mozilla ppa and run apt update/upgrade. I didn't see any eclipse-related packages in my list of packages ready for upgrade (I only recall seeing mozilla stuff, as I had already updated/upgraded less than an hour before).
Then, I started eclipse again. As I had been doing, I pressed ctrl+space as soon as eclipse finished setting up the workspace. Instead of crashing like I expected, a dialog box popped up telling me that my content assist settings had been changed.

The program now works perfectly as far as I can see.

[eugenio (eugenio-lacava)]

An update, since the last run of update manager i get the following error:

 A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x0049ef2d, pid=9691, tid=3078887104
#
# JRE version: 6.0_18-b18
# Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (14.0-b16 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Derivative: IcedTea6 1.8
# Distribution: Ubuntu lucid (development branch), package 6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1
# Problematic frame:
# C [libpthread.so.0+0x7f2d] pthread_mutex_lock+0x1d
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/eugenio/hs_err_pid9691.log
#
# 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.

[eugenio (eugenio-lacava)]

I solved my issue by removing an old version of xulrunner which was causing a duplicated loading in eclicpse which in turn caused the crash as stated in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/453188

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

"sudo aptitude remove xulrunner-1.9.1"

solved this for me (without forcing removing other packages). Probably there should be indication in eclipse packages or xulruner packages prohibiting several versions to be installed.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

@avius: eclipse loaded xulrunner-1.9.2.3 and xulrunner-1.9.1.9, which probably caused the problem. Can you remove one (probably the older one) of them?

We set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to enforce one xulrunner version (in eclipse 3.5.2-2ubuntu4). It should be possible to have different versions of xulrunner installed.

[Diego Garcia (diego-xaethos)]

I can confirm that removing xulrunner-1.9.1 fixes this problem for me as well.

Thank goodness, too. Developing was getting tiresome with the crashes.

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

As far as I can tell, people found a way to fix this, so I am closing this as invalid ("best match" I could find).

Also, I noticed that some of you, who posted crash logs have shared libraries extracted into ~/.eclipse, the eclipse 3.5 (and later) from Debian + Ubuntu should not do this and may very well be the source crashes (or even future ones). Since eclipse uses the shared libraries in your ~/.eclipse there is /nothing/ we can do to fix it, other than have you remove them/your ~/.eclipse folder.

~Niels