Eclipse crashes on startup because of kernel revision

[Robert Sander]

Binary package hint: eclipse

We are running Ubuntu lucid with a custom kernel (with a custom release number): 2.6.32.11-epi+drm33.2

It looks like eclipse does not like it:

!SESSION 2010-07-01 13:42:06.626 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20100211-1343
java.version=1.5.0_10
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2010-07-01 13:42:07.843
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid qualifier: 11-epi+drm33
        at org.osgi.framework.Version.validate(Version.java:188)
        at org.osgi.framework.Version.<init>(Version.java:92)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initializeProperties(Framework.java:361)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:196)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:157)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:286)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1287)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: eclipse 3.5.2-2ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32.11-epi+drm33.2 x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 1 13:42:41 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
SourcePackage: eclipse
xulrunner-versions: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.6

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

Forwared to upstream [1]

~Niels

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=318595

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

This is fixed upstream in eclipse 3.6.

~Niels

[Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)]

Hi

We should be carrying a fix for this issue in eclipse 3.5.2-8 or newer (e.g. Natty and newer)[1]. So I guess we need a backport to Lucid. Are there people using either Maverick or Karmic that would like this to be backported to their repository as well?

Bejamin, I am leaving the actual backporting to us, if that is okay with you. If you want to cherry-pick it from git, then it appears to be commit 00118457 from the master branch.

~Niels

[1] The patch is called debian/patches/bp-osgi-allow-illegal-os-qualifier.patch in the source package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package eclipse - 3.7.0-0ubuntu1

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eclipse (3.7.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Upload to Ubuntu (LP: #860723).
  * Use pkg-config to determine CFLAGS and LIBS for gnomeproxy.
  * Eclipse 3.7 requires at least version 3.3 of asm3.
  * Update debian/copyright.
  * Drop xulrunner from Apport hook.
  * Update debian/watch file.
  * Add patch to find libjasper-java 5.5.33-1 on Debian.
  * Update lintian overrides.

eclipse (3.7~exp-5) experimental; urgency=low

  * Forced many Eclipse version qualifiers to "dist" to avoid buildd
    issues (new patch: forceContextQualifier.patch)

eclipse (3.7~exp-4) experimental; urgency=low

  * We need to install org.eclipse.equinox.concurrent in eclipse-
    platform-data in order for many features to work
  * Merge eclipse-plugin-cvs into eclipse-platform-data, updating
    package description accordingly. Added unversioned Replaces and
    Breaks.

eclipse (3.7~exp-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Re-added main lucene bundle to eclipse-platform
  * Added myself to Uploaders, with permission

eclipse (3.7~exp-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fixed the regression to pde-build script in eclipse-pde.

eclipse (3.7~exp-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Andres Mejia ]
  * Update to my @debian.org email.

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Built without xulrunner support (Closes: #631061)
  * Added Build-Conflicts to ensure xulrunner is not picked up if
    built in unclean chroots.
  * B-D on liblucene2-java (>= 2.9.4+ds1-3~) due to #631234.
  * Bump debhelper compat to 8.

eclipse (3.6.2~exp-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Anders Kaseorg ]
  * debian/patches/gnomeproxy-pkg-config.patch: Use pkg-config to find
    include files and libraries for libgnomeproxy. (LP: #749218)

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * New upstream version (Closes: #587742, LP: #604390).
    - Allows kernels with weird versions (LP: #600584).
  * Use a svn e3.6 branch snapshot of eclipse-build.
  * Drop four backported patches.
  * Drop fix-shell-script-perm.patch.
  * Refresh remaining patches.
  * Drop removed plugins and install new plugins.
  * Drop uname workaround.
  * Add six new patches.
  * Add three patches that moves commands from debian/rules into the ant build
    process.
  * Drop seven patches that are accepted upstream.

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * Removed Adrian Perez, thanks for your support.
  * Updated debian/copyright.
  * Bumped B-D on icu4j.
  * Added B-D to build swt with webkit support.
  * Use mh_clean to clean up after the maven-repo-helper.
  * Pulled the eclipse-platform.NEWS from the master branch and removed the
    old NEWS file.
  * Reduced eclipse-plugins-cvs to a Suggests for eclipse-jdt. (LP: #657286)
  * Made eclipse-plugin-cvs an architecture all package.
  * Made SWT load its JNI from well defined location to prevent occasional
    extraction to ~/.eclipse.

  [ Andres Mejia ]
  * Numerous changes to eclipse packaging just to get eclipse building using
    sbuild.
    - Changes introduced to eclipse so that it builds with latest ant (1.8.2).
      This required updating eclipse-build-generatedScripts.tar.bz2 inside the
      debian directory and...