Bug#336470: eclipse-sdk: eclipse crashes on startup with sablevm

[Timo Lindfors]

Package: eclipse-sdk
Version: 3.1.1-3
Severity: normal

(Note: I'm not sure if I should report this against sablevm or
eclipse.)

I just noticed that eclipse was finally added to debian (yay!) and
went ahead to test it. After "sudo apt-get install eclipse-sdk" I
tried to run "eclipse" as a normal user and got the following output

searching for compatible vm...
  testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...not found
  testing /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads...not found
  testing /usr/lib/sablevm...found
sablevm: INTERNAL ERROR (source file "invoke_interface.c", function "AttachCurrentThread", line 497): todo

Eclipse first opened a dialog and asked for workspace location. After
that it spent a minute or two drawing some sort of progress bar and
then finally sablevm printed that "INTERNAL ERROR" text and eclipse
showed a dialog with

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/lib/sablevm/bin/java
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.0/classmap.db
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 1c8b0004
-install /usr/lib/eclipse
-vm /usr/lib/sablevm/bin/java
-vmargs
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.0/classmap.db
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar

I checked that upstream sablevm versions 1.11.1, 1.11.2 and 1.11.3
have just "todo" in AttachCurrentThread and sablevm 1.12 seems to have
a real implementation there.

Could sablevm be removed from /etc/eclipse/java_home until debian has
at least sablevm 1.12?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.29sauna
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages eclipse-sdk depends on:
di  eclipse-jdt                   3.1.1-3    Java Development Tools plug-ins fo
di  eclipse-pde                   3.1.1-3    Plug-in Development Environment to

eclipse-sdk recommends no packages.

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