Eclipse dies on amd64

[Sean McNeil]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:16 -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
> 
> 
> 2005/12/2, Panagiotis Astithas <past at ebs.gr>:
>         Sean McNeil wrote:
>         > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:12 -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi
>         wrote:
>         >
>         >>Hi everyone.
>         >>
>         >>I'm having problems with eclipse on my new amd64
>         installation. Eclipse hangs 
>         >>for a couple of minutes and then I get a window telling me
>         that java
>         >>crashed.
>         >>
>         >>This is a random problem, and I haven't found a way to
>         reproduce it. It just
>         >>happens.
>         >>I've tryied rebuilding eclipse, but it didn't help (used
>         WITHOUT_CAIRO=yes).
>         >>I've attached the log files generated in my home directory.
>         Maybe someone
>         >>could give me a hint.
>         >>
>         >>Console reports: 
>         >>pid 33465 (java), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
>         >>pid 8299 (java), uid 1000: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
>         >>
>         >>System Detail:
>         >>*FreeBSD taz.oficina 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Tue
>         Nov 29 17:10:44
>         >>ART 2005 root at taz.oficina:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TAZ  amd64
>         >>
>         >>*java version "1.5.0-p2"
>         >>Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 
>         >>1.5.0-p2-root_29_nov_2005_17_58)
>         >>Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build
>         1.5.0-p2-root_29_nov_2005_16_21,
>         >>mixed mode)
>         >
>         >
>         > I used to have this same kind of thing happen to me until I
>         fixed java. 
>         > Please look at the java@ mailing list.  There are two
>         proposed solutions
>         > in there regarding libz namespace conflicts that have been
>         floating
>         > around for quite a while, yet neither of these solutions
>         have been 
>         > implemented in the port.  It is pretty crucial for eclipse
>         as it uses
>         > gtk extensively which relies on libz.  Take a look at:
>         >
>         >
>         http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2005-October/004570.html
>         >
>         > Cheers,
>         > Sean
>         
>         FWIW, I've been running (on i386) with Mikhail's patches for
>         the last
>         couple of months in my day job and I have encountered zero
>         problems. 
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Panagiotis
> 
> 
> I've been using unpatched jdk15 for a couple of months too on i386
> (athlon XP) and it worked without problems. This week I changed my
> computer to an Atlon64 and started a fresh installation, and that's
> when problems started. 
> 
> Yesterday I applied this patch
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2005-October/004487.html) because the other proposed patch failed. Recompiled jdk15 and reinstaled. 
> 
> Eclipse just hanged, so I will try to apply the other patch
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2005-October/004476.html) and recompile jdk15 again.
> 
> I attached today's hs_err-pid file. Do you still think this is a
> libzip.so problem?

This is the most likely candidate, but there are also might be
incompatibilities between the i386 and amd64 versions of a workspace.
Make sure you rm -rf .eclipse and use a fresh workspace.

Another thing people have been asking is to try using the default gnome
theme.