Eclipse crashes on welcome screen

[Amol Ambardekar]

Eclipse crashes on welcome screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
I tried to reinstall eclipse and it still happens.
Here is bug log:
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x02432cee, pid=2803, tid=3048205168
#
# 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 [libmozjs.so+0x1acee] js_NextActiveContext+0x1
#
# 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/
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread is native thread

siginfo:si_signo=SIGSEGV: si_errno=0, si_code=1 (SEGV_MAPERR), si_addr=0x0000019c

Registers:
EAX=0xfffffffc, EBX=0x08ef9ff4, ECX=0xb5afe30c, EDX=0xb65b3ff8
ESP=0xb5afe300, EBP=0xb5afe318, ESI=0xb5afe30c, EDI=0xb65b3e90
EIP=0x02432cee, CR2=0x0000019c, EFLAGS=0x00010286

Top of Stack: (sp=0xb5afe300)
0xb5afe300: b5afe358 00b483c0 b65b9b48 fffffffc
0xb5afe310: b65fe948 b65b3e90 b5afe358 084433b3
0xb5afe320: b65b3e90 00000000 b65b9b48 b65b9b48
0xb5afe330: b6576000 00000001 b5afe358 00e57fa0
0xb5afe340: b6576000 00000000 00000000 00e67ff4
0xb5afe350: b65bb838 00000001 b5afe398 00e5e267
0xb5afe360: b65fe948 b65bb838 00000000 00000000
0xb5afe370: 00000000 00000000 00000000 b65bb8e8

Instructions: (pc=0x02432cee)
0x02432cde: ec 10 8b 45 0c 8b 7d 08 8d 75 f4 89 45 f4 eb 09
0x02432cee: 83 b8 a0 01 00 00 00 75 11 50 56 6a 00 57 e8 57

Stack: [0xb52fe000,0xb5aff000], sp=0xb5afe300, free space=8192k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [libmozjs.so+0x1acee] js_NextActiveContext+0x16
C [libxul.so+0x1c33b3]
C [libnspr4.so+0x28267]
C [libpthread.so.0+0x596e]

CPU:total 4 (4 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 6 model 15 stepping 11, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, ssse3

Memory: 4k page, physical 2836940k(1041564k free), swap 1726948k(1726948k free)

vm_info: OpenJDK Client VM (14.0-b16) for linux-x86 JRE (1.6.0_18-b18), built on Apr 14 2010 11:34:14 by "buildd" with gcc 4.4.3

time: Sat May 1 02:04:06 2010
elapsed time: 13 seconds

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in eclipse.
(With many applications, you can report a future bug directly on the appropriate package by opening the application's "Help" menu and choosing "Report a Problem". https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs)

[jsp (juergen-sprenger)]

I have the same Problem!

[Christian Ramseier (cramseier)]

The bug seems to be related to libcairo, as mentioned on this blog post:
http://www.dataforte.net/blog/2010/03/03/eclipse-crashes-with-lucid/

Quote:
"The Mozilla bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635. A quick workaround is to set the GRE_HOME environment variable to some meaningless path (e.g. /tmp) before launching Eclipse. "

Workaround example:
env GRE_HOME=/tmp /opt/eclipse-galileo/eclipse

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 531719, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.