Bug#684604: eclipse-rcp: eclipse 3.8 hangs on splash screen with "Loading Workbench" after update from 3.7.2

[Dave Tapesar]

Hello there,

I had the same issue on a Debian SID x86_64.
As a sid, there was no eclipse update, only an install on July:
eclipse:amd64 (3.8.0~rc4-1)
The only openjdk update is from October 23rd
openjdk-6-jre:amd64 6b24-1.11.4-3 -> 6b24-1.11.5-1

The problem appeared after the SVN plugin uninstall (because of a plugin
problem) : when asked to reboot, I agreed and Eclipse would stop at the
point "Loading Workbench". Killing the graphic application launched what
seemed to be a deadlock, as the java process was taking all CPU time. A
simple "kill pid" stopped the process. Unfortunately, I have not kept the
details (haven't made a strace)

What was done:

aptitude remove eclipse
aptitude install eclipse
=> Nothing changed

aptitude install openjdk-7-jdk
update-alternatives --config java

=> I chose java7 and ran eclipse from a term. This solved the issue.
I than chose java6 (with update-alternative). Eclipse launches successfully.
Tried to launch eclipse form a graphical menu with success. No ~/.eclipse/
were deleted.

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.5) (6b24-1.11.5-1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_03"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.1.3) (7u3-2.1.3-1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)

Eclipse packages:

 LANG=en_US dpkg -l eclipse\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version
Architecture          Description
+++-=================================-=====================-=====================-========================================================================
ii  eclipse                           3.8.0~rc4-1
all                   Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE
un  eclipse-common-nls
<none>                                      (no description available)
un  eclipse-ecj
<none>                                      (no description available)
ii  eclipse-jdt                       3.8.0~rc4-1
all                   Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT)
un  eclipse-jdt-gcj
<none>                                      (no description available)
ii  eclipse-pde                       3.8.0~rc4-1
amd64                 Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
un  eclipse-pde-gcj
<none>                                      (no description available)
ii  eclipse-platform                  3.8.0~rc4-1
amd64                 Eclipse platform without development plug-ins
un  eclipse-platform-common
<none>                                      (no description available)
ii  eclipse-platform-data             3.8.0~rc4-1
all                   Eclipse platform without development plug-ins (data)
un  eclipse-platform-gcj
<none>                                      (no description available)
un  eclipse-platform-nls
<none>                                      (no description available)
un  eclipse-plugin-cvs
<none>                                      (no description available)
ii  eclipse-rcp                       3.8.0~rc4-1
amd64                 Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
un  eclipse-rcp-gcj
<none>                                      (no description available)
un  eclipse-source
<none>                                      (no description available)



Hope it helps.

-- 
Dave Tapesar
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