fatal error on eclipse Problematic frame: C [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x19528] g_object_get_qdata+0x18

[Oren Gampel]

I've just upgraded kubuntu from 13.04 to 13.10. Everything is updated/upgraded.
If I press `Esc` when the find/replace window in eclipse is open it causes this crash. Always.

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f53e77b2528, pid=8631, tid=139998653265664
#
# JRE version: 7.0_25-b30
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (23.7-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x19528] g_object_get_qdata+0x18
#
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/oren/hs_err_pid8631.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions on how to reproduce the bug and visit:
# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

lsb_release -rd:
  Description: Ubuntu 13.10
  Release: 13.10

apt-cache policy openjdk-7:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

[Oren Gampel (oren-2)]

This seems the same problem as bug #1205452. The workaround mentioned there is applicable here. Namely:

1) Open System Settings
2) Select Application Appearance
3) Select GTK
4) Change the GTK2 theme to anything but oxygen-gtk

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Take a look at bug #1241101 and especially eclipse-bugs #419729. Just waiting on confirmation that the workaround described here works in the cases grouped up in #1241101 in order to group these in with #1241101.

[Sameer (kharesam-6)]

After following the steps given by Oren Gampel and getting Eclipse working, you can close Eclipse and revert settings back to use oxygen-gtk for GTK2 apps. Eclipse works fine after that.

[Sudhir Khanger (sudhirkhanger)]

@Sameer In my case it keeps crashing as long as gtk theme is oxygen-gtk.

[xor (xor)]

I distupgraded to Kubuntu 14.04 due to the Eclipse crashes described and still have the issue :(