Bug#357301: eclipse randomly crashes, usually at startup

[Stephan Michels]

2006/3/16, César Enrique García Dabó <cgarcia at iac.es>:
>  I am trying to use eclipse in my testing/unstable system.
>  Each time I start eclipse with j2se it crashes randomly. Sometimes it doesn`t
>  go beyond the splashscreen, other times it crashes just after the framework
>  has been showed, and other times (not often) it crashes when trying to open
>  a project or a menu option. I append the error report file created by
>  java. Also a window is showed with the command line options,
>  I reproduced it below.
>  The java version used is:
>     Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (Blackdown-1.4.2-03 mixed mode)

The stack trace seems to end at
org.eclipse.jface.bindings.keys.formatting.AbstractKeyFormatter.format(Lorg/eclipse/jface/bindings/keys/KeyStroke;)Ljava/lang/String;+57
, which doesn't execute any native code. So I can exclude any problem
which may occur with the SWT libs.

I would assume that it is an error of your vm. As we do not support
closed source software, you have to contact someone else.

>  I have tried with sable-vm, but it randomly get hang, without response.
>  I have also tried with kaffe, but it runs tremondously slowly and finally
>  it also crashes (I found no log file).

I don't know much sablevm and it is known that kaffe is very slow. And
a new package for kaffe 1.1.7 is not available ATM.

I have good experiences with gcj and cacao, which you should try.

As I don't see any bugs I can solve, I will close this report.

Stephan Michels.