Bugzilla – Bug 351907
eclipse crashes on start after updating today from factory
Last modified: 2008-05-04 17:11:26 UTC
eclipse starts, asks for the workspace to use, then triggers a bug buddy message. Same behavior for normal user as well as root. If a nonexisting workspace is chosen, it is created and eclipse starts normal. Notebook: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Si 1520 Graphics: Fujitsu Siemens Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Monitor: QUANTADISPLAY LCD Monitor 1280x800@60Hz Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection Sound: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller Desktop: gnome2-SuSE-10.3-136 YaST GUI: yast2-qt-2.16.12-7 OS: openSUSE 11.0 (i586) Alpha0 VERSION = 11.0 Kernel: 2.6.24-rc6-git7-2-default rpm -qa | grep java | sort java-1_5_0-gcj-compat-1.5.0.0-14 java-1_5_0-sun-1.5.0_update13-16 java-1_5_0-sun-plugin-1.5.0_update13-16 javamail-1.4-142 eclipse is the eclipse europe download.
Created attachment 189457 [details] bug buddy report on incident
Comment on attachment 189457 [details] bug buddy report on incident The report states: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/lib/Eclipse' This is in error, there is no directory or file "Eclipse" in /usr/lib Eclipse is installed in /usr/local/eclipse and did work nicely until now.
Moving it to beta 1.
Created attachment 209791 [details] eclipse bugreport Using opensuse 11.0 beta1 & eclipse-3.3-130 package. Crash on first time execution of eclipse, I mean when there is no $HOME/.eclipse directory, after loading finishes. Crash generates above attached reports. Once it crashes, it starts up without problem but doesn't ask workspace. It runs with $HOME/.eclipse as a workspace path so I have to manually change to workspace path mine everytime. Deleting $HOME/.eclipse & running again can reproduce this bug.
Created attachment 209792 [details] first time execution of eclipse shows this error dialog.
Same in beta 2. Moving...
This is a duplicate of Bug 293439, also it's been fixed in eclipse.org also as a hint for people wanting to _use_ eclipse, install it directly from eclipse.org, there's no need for an openSuSE package, as far as I can see, as they have their own update and configuration service. Works nicely for me. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 293439 ***
I don't see the point in providing a broken package and then asking the user to install it directly from the original source. If a package is provided, in principle it should work out of the box. If it's broken it causes a damage to the distribution and its image, so better to drop it. Regards, Alberto