Bug#678013: gconf2: Gconf may crash Sun JVM running Eclipse

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 18 juin 2012 à 18:12 +0200, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit : 
> I use Debian at work, on my employer machine.
> I need to use Eclipse and Sun JVM.

Well, there’s your problem.

> I experienced several Eclipse crashes of the JVM 
> 
> #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f642fde23cc, pid=32673, tid=140068365362944
> #
> # JRE version: 6.0_27-b07
> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.2-b06 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
> # Problematic frame:
> # C  [libdbus-1.so.3+0x283cc]  double+0x19ac

Please provide a usable backtrace.
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

Otherwise there’s nothing we can do.

> and filed  a bug with bot  Oracle (no answer) and  Eclipse.org and the
> report is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=382704
> 
> Eclipse team thinks it is gconf related.

Given the track record of Eclipse and the fact that only Eclipse seems
to be affected, I’d be very cautious before accusing anything else.

> I avoid the crashes preventing dbus startup.

Huh? GConf will not work at all without dbus. (And actually almost
nothing *will* work without dbus.)

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