xulrunner window causes swt exception

Im affected also by this issue, had a previously working radrails, and it started giving this error after some updates. Also, the new project dialogs crash with the same error.

Can you post /etc/eclipse.ini?

I was able to rectify this by removing "Amateras HTML Editor" from the file associations for html files.

Am seeing this problem with lucid: latest xulrunner-1.9.2 and latest eclipse. Also with Lotus Notes 8.5, which is eclipse based.
Eclipse is using the correct eclipse.ini directive for locating xulrunner-1.9.2.

I had this problem today after installing the aptana plugin in eclipse. I unistalled it and the problem is gone. (using lucid)

@madmed, @joshcody: I'm actually using the Aptana stuff for my work, so uninstalling isn't a solution. If I have to choose between Lucid and the RadRails plugins, I'll drop Lucid.

Victor Costan wrote:
> @madmed, @joshcody: I'm actually using the Aptana stuff for my work, so
> uninstalling isn't a solution. If I have to choose between Lucid and the
> RadRails plugins, I'll drop Lucid.
>

Could you try to add
-Dswt.library.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/145/1/.cp/

to your eclipse.ini?

Please note that the numbers may vary; you can find the right number by
(e.g.) running:

find /usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles \
  -name 'libswt-xulrunner*.so'

If this does not work, please post your /usr/bin/eclipse (it is a shell
script) and the output of:

ls -1d /usr/lib/xulrunner-*

Thank you in advance,
~Niels

Hi, Niels!

Thank you so much for looking into this!

I tried adding the following to eclipse.ini, and I still got the same (or a very similar) error after starting eclipse.
-Dswt.library.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/144/1/.cp/

The log entry is:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2010-04-02 00:13:47.932
!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-xulrunner-gtk-3557 or swt-xulrunner-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar file)
 at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3910)
 at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3799)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.create(Mozilla.java:452)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Browser.java:119)
 at com.aptana.ide.core.ui.browser.BaseBrowserAdapter.createControl(BaseBrowserAdapter.java:56)
 at com.aptana.radrails.intro.editors.MyRadRailsEditor.createPartControl(MyRadRailsEditor.java:157)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPartHelper(EditorReference.java:662)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPart(EditorReference.java:462)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:595)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setVisible(PartPane.java:313)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.PresentablePart.setVisible(PresentablePart.java:180)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.PresentablePartFolder.select(PresentablePartFolder.java:270)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.LeftToRightTabOrder.select(LeftToRightTabOrder.java:65)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation.selectPart(TabbedStackPresentation.java:473)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.refreshPresentationSelection(PartStack.java:1256)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.setSelection(PartStack.java:1209)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.presentationSelectionChanged(PartStack.java:843)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.access$1(PartStack.java:829)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack$1.selectPart(PartStack.java:139)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation$1.handleEvent(TabbedStackPresentation.java:133)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.AbstractTabFolder.fireEvent(AbstractTabFolder.java:270)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.AbstractTabFolder.fireEvent(AbstractTabFolder.java:279)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.defaultpresentation.DefaultTabFolder.access$1(DefaultTabFolder.java:1)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.defaultpresentation.DefaultTabFolder$2.handleEvent(DefaultTabFolder.java:87)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1176)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1200)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1185)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1025)
 at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.setSelection(CTabFolder.java:3256)
 at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.onMouse(CTabFolder.java:2045)
 at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder$1.handleEvent(CTabFolder.java:323)
 at ...

For the sake of completeness, here is the output of the find command:
/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/144/1/.cp/libswt-xulrunner-gtk-3557.so

Victor Costan wrote:
> For the sake of completeness, here is the output of the find command:
> /usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/144/1/.cp/libswt-xulrunner-gtk-3557.so
>

Just to be certain (because I failed to specify it), the
-Dswt.library.path should be added after a line stating
-wmargs in eclipse.ini

~Niels

Also just to make sure, here's the eclipse.ini after the changes.

Once again, thanks so much for looking into this!
    Victor

Same issue here.
Followed Niels' suggestions, but problem persists.

Here are some additional info, hopefully helps developers to pinpoint the issue:

System: ubuntu 10.4 Lucid
Eclipse 3.5.2 with Aptana Studio 2.04 plugin installed.

Using Eclipse for PHP development, and occasionally creating Javascript, (X)HTLML and CSS files too.
Having this problem only if I left HTML or CSS documents open when I closed the application last time I use.
So next time I start, it will try to load those documents and displays error message.
However, Eclipse won't crash. It displays an error message, and in a second pop-up message, it asks me if I want to exit to workbench. If I select "NO", I can continue working without any problems.
I can edit, save and upload files, including CSS and HTML.

Here is the error message:
Problem Occurred
(Build 2.0.0.1257380403) [ERROR] Unabled to create browser control:Default
No more handles (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-xulrunner-gtk-3557 or swt-xulrunner-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar file)

Same issue here. just that if you set the
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3
eclipse will hang in the initial splash screen, which suggests to me that it is a problem of firefox 3.6 and xuleunner with eclipse 3.5. don't know if it is possible to put the firefox 3.5 somewhere and link to it. will try and will report back
Cheers,
Rex

@ralemi
That should be
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-`xulrunner-1.9.2 --gre-version`

@ Micah Gersten
Thank you very much. here is my experience in three stages:

====== Stage 1
sudo su
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-`xulrunner-1.9.2 --gre-version`
eclipse
<<it hangs on the splash screen>>
====== Stage 2
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jni
eclipse
<<it opens the IDE but hangs>>
====== Stage 3
put the attached eclipse.ini file
<<it opens and works, but at the exit gives an error msg and an error list that I have attached.>>

....continued from previous message:

Unhandled event loop exception
XPCOM error -2147467262

and doesn't close the workspace

and finally, the dump to the command line at XPCOM error:

One extra note, I too can't give up Aptana, but didn't want to drop Lucid. I ended up using the Aptana standalone version, which works with Java, PHP, HTML, JS and Pydev installed. and since it is based on eclipse 3.5, I guess the problem is in eclipse Ubuntu package and eclipse configuration files somewhere.
HTH,
Rex

This bug was fixed in the package eclipse - 3.5.2-2ubuntu2

---------------
eclipse (3.5.2-2ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * Added missing copyright statement about ownership over the Debian packaging.

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
    org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath (LP: #559229, #553779).
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:12:21 +0200

I still have the problem with 3.5.2-2unbuntu2

I've just updated to 3.5.2-2ubuntu2 and now Eclipse freezes when loading the workspace -- I suspect it freezes when trying to create the xulrunner view.

I tried to create a new workspace, to make sure that's not the problem. After choosing a blank workspace (non-existent directory), Eclipse now freezes while the splash screen is on.

Is there any way I can collect more information to help the developers figure out what's going on?

Thank you,
    Victor

Is -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2 removed from /etc/eclipse.ini?

When I did the upgrade, I chose to replace eclipse.ini with the version supplied by the package. I did that because of the "fix released" claim in this thread.

I attached /etc/eclipse.ini, as it is on my computer right now. Should I add that line to it?

In the interest of saving one round-trip, I tried adding -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2 to /etc/eclipse.ini

Now the effects are the same in a new and existing workspace. The xulrunner view ("My RadRails") is empty, which I don't mind at all. When closing it, I get an "XPCOM error -2147467262" alert (exception trace below), followed by an "unhandled SWT error" dialog box, suggesting that I turn off Eclipse. Everything seems to be working well if I ignore the error.

All in all, I think the eclipse.ini patch is a win (I can use Eclipse now) and I'm grateful to get to this state. I'm happy to collect more information if that helps.

Thank you for investigating this bug!
    Victor

The relevant Eclipse log entry is:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2010-04-13 02:35:18.164
!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147467262
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.error(Mozilla.java:2089)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.unhookDOMListeners(Mozilla.java:2453)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.onDispose(Mozilla.java:2102)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla$5.handleEvent(Mozilla.java:1480)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1176)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1200)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1181)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.release(Widget.java:1044)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.release(Control.java:3293)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.releaseChildren(Composite.java:1185)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.release(Widget.java:1047)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.release(Control.java:3293)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.releaseChildren(Composite.java:1185)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.release(Widget.java:1047)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.release(Control.java:3293)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.releaseChildren(Composite.java:1185)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.release(Widget.java:1047)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.release(Control.java:3293)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.dispose(Widget.java:446)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.dispose(PartPane.java:180)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.dispose(WorkbenchPartReference.java:681)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.disposePart(WorkbenchPage.java:1715)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.handleDeferredEvents(WorkbenchPage.java:1422)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.deferUpdates(WorkbenchPage.java:1406)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.closeEditors(WorkbenchPage.java:1380)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.closeEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:1435)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorPane.doHide(EditorPane.java:61)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.close(PartStack.java:543)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorStack.close(EditorStack.java:206)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack$1.close(PartStack.java:122)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation$1.handleEvent(TabbedStackPresentation.java:83)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentation...

Hello,

I have the same problems as Victor: I upgraded to 3.5.2-2ubuntu2 and Eclipse freezes when loading the workspace (more exactly, the freeze occurs after all the initializations and initial compilation of projects have completed).
I don't use Aptana, it's a regular Eclipse with a few plugins (AspectJ with weaving enabled, P4, WTP, TPTP, Data modeling, Mylin, IAM).

Here is the stack trace for the thread that is hanging:

java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.mozilla.XPCOM._Call(Native Method)
 at org.eclipse.swt.internal.mozilla.XPCOM.Call(XPCOM.java:540)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.create(Mozilla.java:588)
 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Browser.java:119)
 at org.eclipse.jface.internal.text.html.BrowserInformationControl.isAvailable(BrowserInformationControl.java:87)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.JavadocHover$HoverControlCreator.doCreateInformationControl(JavadocHover.java:342)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractReusableInformationControlCreator.createInformationControl(AbstractReusableInformationControlCreator.java:45)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractInformationControlManager.getInformationControl(AbstractInformationControlManager.java:808)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractInformationControlManager.internalShowInformationControl(AbstractInformationControlManager.java:1157)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractInformationControlManager.presentInformation(AbstractInformationControlManager.java:1139)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractHoverInformationControlManager.presentInformation(AbstractHoverInformationControlManager.java:902)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager.doPresentInformation(TextViewerHoverManager.java:243)
 at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager$5.run(TextViewerHoverManager.java:233)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:134)
 - locked <0x00007f0a6d3aef58> (a org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3468)
 at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3115)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2405)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2369)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2221)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:500)
 at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:493)
 at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
 at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:113)
 at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:194)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)
 at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStart...

I confirm that the problem is solved. I no longer get the error, and all of the eclipse functions work. I am running Lucid Desktop 64bit kernel 2.6.32.21 and in eclipse, I have Aptana Studio plugin installed along with Pydev, PDT, and subversive (All from Aptana site), and plugins for UML and SQL from third parties.

I am attaching a tar ball with my eclipse.ini (just the maintainer version) and eclipse package information.

Thanks to all maintainers for fixing this bug. I can once again enjoy programming in Eclipse.
Cheers.
Rex

@ralemi: You wrote in commend #23 that you still have the problem, but now is it solved? What happened in between?

@Benjamin

Hi Ben,
Today I updated my system using update manager. it updated my firefox, xulrunner, and eclipse-pde packages. after that I changed the eclipse.ini to the maintainer version and run the application and the problem was gone.

I have an image of my system two days ago when I had the problem. if it helps tell me and I'll restore the image and report on that
configuration.

Thank you again for the fix,
Rex

@ralemi: Either it was the eclipse-pde update or it was a bug in xulrunner that was fixed.

@Victor and @Ludovic: Please update your system and make sure that you use the maintainer version of eclipse.ini. If you still have problems, then open a new bug report with "ubuntu-bug eclipse".

Kubuntu Lucid. Same mozilla error after running Aptana (Aptana Studio, build: 2.0.4.1268158907) for the first time after Lucid update.

I did not have Eclipse already installed, I was running Aptana freestanding.

I installed the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) 3.5.2-2ubuntu4.1(i386), as well as the same version of the full IDE, from the KPackageKit. The errors went away and Aptana is running fine now.

Thanks to those who have already looked into it.
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