Bug#479226: Eclipse crashes after start-up with sun-java6 6-06-1

[Ionut Ciocirlan]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 10:27:12 Michael Koch wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:38:34PM +0300, Ionut Ciocirlan wrote:
> > Package: eclipse
> > Version: 3.2.2-5
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > *** Please type your report below this line ***
> > Eclipse invariably starts up properly, displays the UI for a short
> > moment, then closes the UI and pops the following error box:
> >
> > JVM terminated. Exit code=1
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
> > -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
> > -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db
> > -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
> > -Dosgi.locking=none
> > -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar
> > -os linux
> > -ws gtk
> > -arch x86_64
> > -launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
> > -name Eclipse
> > -showsplash 600
> > -exitdata 201004a
> > -install /usr/lib/eclipse
> > -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java
> > -vmargs
> > -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
> > -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db
> > -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
> > -Dosgi.locking=none
> > -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar
> >
> > This started happening right after upgrade of sun java from 6-00-2 to
> > 6-06-1.
>
> Can you please try to start eclipse with "eclipse -clean" once?
> Does that help?
>
> I use 6-05-1 here currently and it works perfectly. Will try with newer
> SUN JDK later.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael


No, it doesn't.
What does indeed work is starting with a fresh workbench -- i.e. rm 
workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml

I tried isolating the offending items from workbench.xml, but to no avail. 
Every time I'd manage to start it up, it crashes on the next start if leaving  
files open.

Some notes about my setup: there's nothing excessively customised, and the 
only plugin installed is eclipse-pydev 1.2.5-2 from the debian repo.

This was also happening with previous Sun 6 JREs from sid (not sure about the 
version, but now I remember clearly that's the reason why I held back 
6-00-2).

Regards,
Ionut