[Gutsy] eclipse crash

[Lorenzo F.]

Binary package hint: eclipse

I installed the Eclipse IDE via repositories and I'm continuously experiencing sudden crashes in Ubuntu Gutsy.
I think this bug is not related with the JVM/JDK in use, cause it occurs both setting default JDK in eclipse as Java 6 and Java 5.0.
I'm attaching a the latest logs automatically generated in my home folder.

Guys IMHO this is a very critical bugs because of the number of developers using Eclipse out there.
If you need more info just ask, I'll try to do my best to help understanding this.

[Lorenzo F. (saltatempo)]

This is the message appearing on the alert windows as the crash occurs.

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 3b0017
-install /usr/lib/eclipse
-vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
-vmargs
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar

[Lorenzo F. (saltatempo)]

I spent a few time trying to replicate the bug. I just noticed that the crash occurs when switching between tabs into eclipse.
The problem seems to disappear if compiz desktop effects are switched off.

This is the header of the error log. For further details you can see the attached file above.
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb4f8f8c3, pid=6036, tid=3084344208
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.6.0_02-b05 mixed mode, sharing)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x2328c3] gtk_tooltips_set_tip+0x1a3
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

[Johannes Langlotz (johannes-langlotz)]

I am not 100% sure but I believe this has something todo with gtk's new tooltip implemetation (if you switch beween tabs eclipse diplays tooltips, and this fails sometimes). I don't have these chrashes with eclipse 3.3!