Bug#424860: eclipse randomly crashes (VNC) X server

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:49:28PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.2.1-6
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> I've installed the Debian version of Eclipse for the first time
> today. The box starts a bunch of vnc4servers via gdm which are the
> main method of accessing it.
> 
> In the ~2 hours I've tried working with Eclipse since the install my
> VNC session was disconnected twice. Apparently the server crashed and
> was restarted both times - naturally my session was gone along with
> all open windows and unsaved data.
> 
> Compounded with the fact that Eclipse lacks an autosave feature this
> makes it quite unusable for me.
> 
> Please tell me what debug info I should (generate and) provide.

Are you really really sure Eclipse is the reason for your crashing. I
have used Eclipse over VNC several times in near past and it never
crashed VNC.


Cheers,
Michael
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