eclipse crashes when changing desktops or opening the workbench (in eclipse)

[Christian Korff]

Eclipse crashed when I'm switching desktops, terminals (strg+alt+fx) or just . It's fully reproducible on my machine.

The release is Ubuntu 12.04.

$ gdb /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
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Reading symbols from /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fffe2ba98a0, pid=26469, tid=140737328486144
#
# JRE version: 6.0_30-b12
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.5-b03 mixed mode
linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0+0x3c18a0] wchar_t+0x30
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/ck/hs_err_pid26469.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
[Inferior 1 (process 26466) exited normally]

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Hi,
the crash seems to have to do with the webkit rendering -- the workaround in bug #905814 might help you as well, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/905814/comments/7

[Christian Korff (christian.korff)]

Thanks for the workaround. It works. I think this is a dupplicate of bug #905814. But I am not really sure.