xulrunner makes Eclipse crash

[Franck]

Binary package hint: xulrunner

It seems that a bug in xulrunner is causing Eclipse IDE to crash when trying to display javadoc links in it's autocompletion.

Related bugs are :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/533295
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=303372
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635#c21

I suggest this should be fixed before the release of Lucid, as it makes Eclipse really unstable.

[Franck (alci)]

So, to sum up and give a little more context :

- in lucid, using xulrunner 1.9.1.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1, stock eclipse galileo will crash trying to diplay javadocs in autcompletion

- adding xulrunner 1.9.2 from ppa ubuntu-mozilla-dailly and adding the -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.2pre option in eclipse.ini fixes the problem

- a patch is available (to be confirmed) in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635#c21 ??

[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.