Eclipse crashes

[rname]

I'm also seeing something similar. Eclipse crashes after startup even if I'm not doing anything.
Could it be the same as this Launchpad bug?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...-6/+bug/699859

Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
I was running Eclipse Galileo (w/CDT) for months with no problems.
I recently decided to give Helios a try but since it's not available in the package manager for 10.04 I downloaded it & installed from the Eclipse site directly. After installing Helios, it was crashing on startup, so I decided to uninstall and go back to Galileo. Now Galileo also crashes shortly after startup.

!SESSION 2011-03-04 09:03:28.230 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20100211-1343
java.version=1.6.0_24
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -consoleLog

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f299af07afb, pid=2071, tid=139816588687104
#
# JRE version: 6.0_24-b07
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (19.1-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x691afb]
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# hs_err_pid2071.log
[thread 139816589739776 also had an error]
[thread 139816587634432 also had an error]
[thread 139816590792448 also had an error]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp

[rname]

Try disabling C++ indexing quickly at startup.
If you click on the indexer in progress (lower right) and stop it, then Eclipse doesn't seem to crash.
It seems to be related to C++ indexing.

[JKT7]

Try disabling C++ indexing quickly at startup.
If you click on the indexer in progress (lower right) and stop it, then Eclipse doesn't seem to crash.
It seems to be related to C++ indexing.

I noticed this too, so I disabled indexing and project building completely. It crashes less often, but it's still crashing for me.

It only seems to crash when I have a C++ project open though. If I work only on one of my PyDev projects, it doesn't crash.

[eotakos]

Yeap! - The crash we all have is caused by some changes made in java during the last update... I was using eclipse for a long time without any issues before that.
are we all running 64bit OSs?

If someone tracks a workaround please post.

Thanks

[alberto1976]

It only seems to crash when I have a C++ project open though. If I work only on one of my PyDev projects, it doesn't crash.

I have experienced the same. It works fine unless a C/C++ project is open (even the built-in "Hello World" one).

are we all running 64bit OSs?

Yes, 64bits here.

[alberto1976]

Some updates:

• I managed to disable the C++ indexer (and you need to be fast) and the problem seemed fixed. I did experience few random crashes though even without the indexer.
• I found a possible solution at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=333227 where somebody suggested to add

  -XX:-UseCompressedOops

  to the file /usr/lib/eclipse.ini. I have done that and managed to re-activate indexing without seeing any crash.

[ThePineappler]

Same here, Eclipse crashes with a similar error. :S
Also on 64-bit, if it helps.

[janiskr]

if that helps, these where the updates I installed:

Aptitude 0.6.3: log report                                                                                                           
O*, feb 22 2011 08:11:44 +0200                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                     
IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due to                                                           
dpkg problems may not be completed.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                     
Will install 6 packages, and remove 7 packages.                                                                                      
30,8MB of disk space will be freed                                                                                                   
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[REMOVE, NOT USED] javahelp2                                                                                                         
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libfelix-framework-java                                                                                           
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libfelix-main-java                                                                                                
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libjna-java                                                                                                       
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libnb-platform12-java                                                                                             
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libswing-layout-java                                                                                              
[REMOVE, NOT USED] visualvm                                                                                                          
[UPGRADE] sun-java6-bin 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10 -> 6.24-1build0.10.10.1                                                                  
[UPGRADE] sun-java6-fonts 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10 -> 6.24-1build0.10.10.1                                                                
[UPGRADE] sun-java6-jdk 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10 -> 6.24-1build0.10.10.1                                                                  
[UPGRADE] sun-java6-jre 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10 -> 6.24-1build0.10.10.1                                                                  
[UPGRADE] sun-java6-plugin 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10 -> 6.24-1build0.10.10.1                                                               
[UPGRADE] sun-java6-source 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10 -> 6.24-1build0.10.10.1                                                               
===============================================================================                                                      
                                                                                                                                     
Log complete.

after what eclipse indexer started to crash in CDT. Before that Galileo and Helios worked normally.

[rymurr]

This is not terribly relevant but switching to openJDK 'fixed' the problem for me. Since I have no time to bug hunt and openjdk does what I want it is a good solution for now.

[rname]

Thank you alberto1976. Adding -XX:-UseCompressedOops to eclipse.ini appears to have worked.
At least it finished indexing and hasn't crashed so far.