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eclipse 3.5.2-1 crashes on startup

Bug #546518 reported by Matthias Klose
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eclipse (Ubuntu)
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xulrunner-1.9.1 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: eclipse

crashes immediately on startup on i386.

Note that the previous version did work fine with the openjdk-6 6b18~pre3-0ubuntu1 package. The problem points at an xulrunner problem again.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :
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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote :

Hi

According to the log, eclipse has loaded two different versions of
xulrunner libraries.

/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxpcom.so
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.8/libxpcom.so

Please try with only one xulrunner installed (or try something like
eclipse -vmargs
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/bin/xulrunner-${version}")

~Niels

 status incomplete

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

What's the output of xulrunner --gre-version?

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

$ xulrunner --gre-version
1.9.1.8

removing this version (had zekr installed for testing) fixes the problem. please make eclipse more robust that it only uses one version.

another story if we should remove xulrunner-1.9.1 in lucid

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

eclipse should use xulrunner-VERSION --gre-version ... and not xulrunner which is a alternative that isnt guarnateed to be right.

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

We have to set "-vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2", because we set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in xulrunner-1.9.1 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package eclipse - 3.5.2-2ubuntu1

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eclipse (3.5.2-2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Set org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath explicitly. (LP: #546518)
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:22:03 +0100

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

I'm using eclipse 3.5.2-2ubuntu4 and am still getting the problem of eclipse hanging on start at the splash screen.

Using the command:-

alan@wopr:~$ eclipse -vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/bin/xulrunner-${version}

Allows it to run.

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

@Alan: Can you make sure that only one xulrunner is installed? If you still experience hangs, please open a new bug report.

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