Eclipse crashes

**nemediano** · March 9th, 2011

Same here.

Ubuntu 10.10 on 64bits
Eclipse Elios SR1 (downloaded from the website)
Sun java 6
Using CDT

I don't now what the problem is, it worked for me for tree days, and then it started crashed and crashed again.

I't crashed at the indexing and with the
-XX:-UseCompressedOops

At the eclipse.ini is working now. But i think we should use it as a temporary fix.

**everweb** · March 9th, 2011

Use openJDK.

Open galternatives and set all of your java programs to openJDK instead of the Sun Java alternative.

**Zilioum** · March 10th, 2011

Originally Posted by everweb

Use openJDK.

Open galternatives and set all of your java programs to openJDK instead of the Sun Java alternative.

I can confirm this. On my notebook I have exactly the same setup as on my desktop, except that I use OpenJDK. No crashes on my notebook yet. Both are 64-bit as well.

**axel_m** · March 10th, 2011

Originally Posted by 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
Code:
```
-XX:-UseCompressedOops
```
to the file /usr/lib/eclipse.ini. I have done that and managed to re-activate indexing without seeing any crash.

That's a bug in the 64Bit version of the Sun JDK/JRE. You should either add the above quoted line to your eclipse.ini or use OpenJDK.

**eotakos** · March 13th, 2011

funny thing... I switched to the repository version and it worked. Not that running away from the problem actually solves the problem, but...

**Olostan** · March 14th, 2011

Today eclipse with C++ starts crashing, but yesterday worked like a charm (nothing was updated, same cpp project and files).

'-XX:-UseCompressedOops' solved problem.

Is there any explanation somewhere? Interesting when I can remove this switch (and should I?)

**mchibani** · March 15th, 2011

Hi,
Got same crash ! I found this workaround :
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=333227
it worked for me

Hope it helps

**djtarki** · March 24th, 2011

Originally Posted by 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
Code:
```
-XX:-UseCompressedOops
```
to the file /usr/lib/eclipse.ini. I have done that and managed to re-activate indexing without seeing any crash.

That worked like a charm! Thanks!

**axylone** · April 5th, 2011

Fix seems to work for me too. Thanks!

**davidgutu** · May 24th, 2011

unfortunately fix doesn't seem to work for me.
Here is a copy of my log file:

!SESSION Mon May 23 18:51:54 EDT 2011 ------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2011-05-23 18:51:54.131
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarte
r
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 21)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 66)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework( Main.java:556)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.ja va:514)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:13 11)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1 287)