Bug#339289: eclipse-sdk: Eclipse hangs on startup

[Michael Koch]

Hello,


Thanks for zour report.

> I installed eclipse-sdk, and selected "Eclipse" from the Gnome menu.

Running eclipse in a terminal gives you additional informations like the
runtime that is used to execute Eclipse
 
> It popped up a little box to announce it was starting, and then
> displayed another window with a little progress bar.  For a while it ate
> all CPU, and then after about 30 seconds, it stopped using CPU -- but
> did not appear to progress any further.  I gave up and killed it after a
> few minutes.
> 
> Here's the state of the progress bar when it hung:
> 
>    [########################################                ]
>    Loaded org.eclipse.jdt.core                    Eclipse SDK
> 
> I don't have kaffe installed, so I don't think it's the same hanging
> problem to do with kaffe as reported earlier.

As you have java-gcj-compat installed I think eclipse uses this as its
runtime. Unfortunately this currently breaks due to a binutils bug.
A workaround is either to use another runtime to execute eclipse or to
run the following command in a separate terminal:

while true ; do killall c++filt 2>/dev/null ; done
 
Downgrading binutils to an older version from snaphost.debian.net helps
also.

> BTW reportbug only shows direct dependencies, so here's the output of
> "aptitude search ~i~djava":

The direct dependencies are okay.


Cheers,
Michael
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