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Bug 222408

Summary: Eclipse crashes when using file browser
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: simon <archangel269>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse, remy.suen
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description simon CLA 2008-03-12 09:57:28 EDT
Created attachment 92313 [details]
Eclipse Configuration (from Help > About Eclipse Platform > Configuration Details)

Build ID: M20080221-1800

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Unzip eclipse-java-europa-winter-win32.zip
2. Start eclipse (eclipse/eclipse.exe)
3. Create a new project
4. Add external libraries


More information:
My eclipse is crashing when I try to add libraries to my project. It disappears without an error message or any warning whatsoever. It happens when using a fresh install of eclipse and a new Java project. I'm using Java 1.6u4. The .log file contains almost no information:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 2 10035 2008-03-11 00:04:56.703
!MESSAGE The workspace exited with unsaved changes in the previous session; refreshing workspace to recover changes.
!SESSION 2008-03-11 09:01:30.343 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20080221-1800
java.version=1.6.0_04
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 2 10035 2008-03-11 09:01:34.765
!MESSAGE The workspace exited with unsaved changes in the previous session; refreshing workspace to recover changes.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 4 2008-03-11 09:01:57.078
!MESSAGE Invalid preference page path: Cache


That's all that is in the file - no stack trace, no JVM dump, nothing. Sometimes the last message about "Invalid preference page path" is not even written.

I've poked around my Java installation directory and couldn't find anything that looked like a vm dump log there.

I have no idea what is causing this problem. I am able to repeat it consistently, following the steps I listed above.

I notice that it only (and always) crashes when I have a file browser open and I move my mouse over the files in the file window. If I open a file browser window and don't move my mouse into the file window, no problem. As soon as I move my mouse into the file window, eclipse crashes without a trace. This always occurs when I'm trying to add libraries to the project.

I know this can't be a common problem or else someone would have reported it by now, but it is absolutely road-blocking me. I don't know what else I can do to diagnose the problem, so any help would be appreciated.
Comment 1 Kim Horne CLA 2008-03-12 10:01:54 EDT
Does this happen if you use a 1.5 (or 1.4) VM?
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2008-03-12 10:14:11 EDT
File browser, you say? Please see bug 188317.
Comment 3 Kim Horne CLA 2008-03-12 10:21:46 EDT
Looks right to me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188317 ***
Comment 4 simon CLA 2008-03-12 11:53:01 EDT
Thanks for the help! Following the leads provided here, I was eventually able to determine that this was a duplicate of bug 87798, not bug 188317.

The fix was to rename or otherwise disable the CMExplorer.dll which is part of CM Synergy by Telelogic. That solved the problem for me. See bugs mentioned above for more details.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 87798 ***