Bug#365577: eclipse: Opening compare view freezes system

[Daniel Hofstetter]

Michael Koch wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:44:19AM +0200, Daniel Hofstetter wrote:
>> Package: eclipse
>> Version: 3.1.2-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> If I select a file and choose "Compare with HEAD", Eclipse tries to open the compare view, but in the
>> middle of this process, the system freezes: it is no longer possible to move the mouse or to switch
>> to the console. There are no relevant entries in workspace/.metadata/.log and the system log files.
>> I use the following additional plugins:
>> - Eclipse Webtools
>> - PHPEclipse
>> - Subclipse
> 
> Sorry for the long delay. Did you used java-gcj-compat as runtime for
> Eclipse (or some other classpath-based VM)? Please try to run this with
> SUNs runtime. I think this should work. I think the problem is that you
> use SVN over SSH/SSL and this doesnt work in classpath-derived VMs yet.
> Please let me know if you can confirm this assumption.

Well, I use the Sun runtime. In the meantime the described problem
disappeared, so it was probably not an Eclipse issue. There are still
such freezes from time to time when using Eclipse, but they are not
reproducible...

Cheers,
Daniel