eclipse crashed with SIGABRT in instanceKlass::oop_follow_contents()

[Nguyen Huu Binh Minh]

Binary package hint: eclipse

Just open Eclipse, then it told me that it crashed, but it's still running.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: eclipse-platform 3.5.2-8ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic-pae 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 30 15:09:44 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: eclipse
StacktraceTop:
 instanceKlass::oop_follow_contents(oopDesc*) () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
 MarkSweep::follow_stack() () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
 MarkSweep::FollowRootClosure::do_oop(oopDesc**) () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
 Universe::oops_do(OopClosure*, bool) () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
 SharedHeap::process_strong_roots(bool, bool, SharedHeap::ScanningOption, OopClosure*, CodeBlobClosure*, OopsInGenClosure*) () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
Title: eclipse crashed with SIGABRT in instanceKlass::oop_follow_contents()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-10 (19 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
mtime.conffile..etc.eclipse.ini: 2010-05-17T16:08:38.143600
xulrunner-versions:
 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.16pre
 /usr/lib/xulrunner-2.0
 /usr/lib/xulrunner-2.0-addons

[Benjamin Schmid (benbuntu)]

This seems to be a bug in the JVM Implementation. To be more precise the memory management (GC) part of it.
See i.e. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6896739

I stumbled over this isse because we have the same failures, but only with very large Java Heap Sizes. Do you set large Heap Size for Eclipse or have you a machine with very large memory.

Maybe try to limit the Heap to sth. like 1GB with -Xmx1024M.
Refer to http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_increase_the_heap_size_available_to_Eclipse%3F on how to achieve this.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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