Bug#446299: eclipse: Crashes on startup

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2008 12:16 PM, Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:01:36PM +0200, Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> > > > >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> > > > > COMMAND
> > > > >  4588 arie      23   0  930m 754m  60m D   81 64.7   0:28.48 java
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, no I have a much leaner memory usage here. Is the package
> > > > eclipse-gcj installed? This depends on some optimized packages for
> > GCJ.
> > > > Can you please try this too?
> > >
> > >
> > > $ dpkg -l | grep eclipse-gcj
> > > ii  eclipse-gcj                                  3.2.2-4
> > > Native Eclipse run with GCJ
> >
> > Can you please remove it and all the *-gcj packages and retest?
> 
> 
> I did following:
> # dpkg --purge libxerces2-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj libswt3.2-gtk-gcj
> liblog4j1.2-java-gcj libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libecj-java-gcj eclipse-rcp-gcj
> eclipse-platform-gcj eclipse-pde-gcj eclipse-jdt-gcj eclipse-gcj ecj-gcj
> ant-optional-gcj ant-gcj  java-gcj-compat-dev
> 
> And now eclipse works! Thank you very much!
> 
> Have you ever tried to run Eclipse with SUN JDK? Does that work?
> 
> 
> Yes, I tried that before. Got the same problem.

Hmm, as you deinstalled java-gcj-compat-dev GCJ is probably not used
anymore as runtime. Would have been good to see if it works with GCJ for
you at all. Can you please retest this and give feedback?


Cheers,
Michael