Bug#720621: eclipse-platform: Eclipse 3.8 segfaults on start-up after selecting workspace

[David Derby]

Package: eclipse-platform
Version: 3.8.1-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
   Fresh install of Eclipse on Debian sid (Siduction).
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   Ran /usr/bin/eclipse, when prompted to select a workspace I took the default option (~/workspace).
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   SIGSEGV
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   Eclipse to launch successfully.

Selecting "Cancel" on the Workspace dialog box also triggers a SIGSEGV.

I tried it with both OpenJDK 6 and 7 but both fail.

I then downloaded and tried the latest Eclipse (4.3 Kepler) from http://eclipse.org/downloads/ and this ran successfully.

The following text is written to stdout:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f3cc3bb8908, pid=9266, tid=139899353265920
#
# JRE version: 7.0_25-b30
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (23.7-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x19908]  g_object_get_qdata+0x18
#
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/******/hs_err_pid9266.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions on how to reproduce the bug and visit:
#   http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

Nothing is written to stderr.

If you are unable to reproduce this, I will provide the log file and core dump.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-4.towo-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages eclipse-platform depends on:
ii  ant                            1.9.2-1
ii  ant-optional                   1.9.2-1
ii  default-jre [java6-runtime]    1:1.7-49
ii  eclipse-platform-data          3.8.1-4
ii  eclipse-rcp                    3.8.1-4
ii  gconf-service                  3.2.6-1
ii  java-common                    0.49
ii  libc6                          2.17-92
ii  libcommons-codec-java          1.8-1
ii  libcommons-httpclient-java     3.1-10.2
ii  libcommons-logging-java        1.1.3-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                   3.2.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                   2.37.5-0r0
ii  libjetty8-java                 8.1.3-8
ii  libjsch-java                   0.1.50-1
ii  liblucene2-java                2.9.4+ds1-4
ii  libservlet3.0-java             7.0.42-1
ii  multiarch-support              2.17-92
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java6-runtime]  6b27-1.12.6-1
ii  openjdk-7-jre [java6-runtime]  7u25-2.3.12-4
ii  sat4j                          2.3.2-1

Versions of packages eclipse-platform recommends:
ii  eclipse-pde  3.8.1-4

Versions of packages eclipse-platform suggests:
ii  eclipse-jdt  3.8.1-4

Versions of packages eclipse-platform is related to:
ii  eclipse-jdt  3.8.1-4
ii  eclipse-pde  3.8.1-4

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