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Bug 227665

Summary: Eclipse Crashes When Launching
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Casey Watson <casedog_spam>
Component: RuntimeAssignee: platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Casey Watson CLA 2008-04-17 17:33:07 EDT
Created attachment 96511 [details]
Generated log file

Build ID: I20080409-1425

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Unzip the Linux GTK M6 tarball in Ubuntu 7.10 x86.
2. Run eclipse executable
3. Enter a new workspace location when prompted

Eclipse then crashes, no errors are displayed. The generated log file is attached.


More information:
I would be happy to test/verify any fixes.
Comment 1 Casey Watson CLA 2008-04-17 18:02:06 EDT
When run from the command line the following exception is logged:

% ./eclipse/eclipse 
Exception in thread "Thread-1" org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147467262
        at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.error(Mozilla.java:1502)
        at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.setText(Mozilla.java:1721)
        at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.setText(Browser.java:733)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.intro.impl.presentations.BrowserIntroPartImplementation.generateContentForPage(BrowserIntroPartImplementation.java:252)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.intro.impl.presentations.BrowserIntroPartImplementation.dynamicStandbyStateChanged(BrowserIntroPartImplementation.java:451)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.intro.impl.presentations.BrowserIntroPartImplementation.doStandbyStateChanged(BrowserIntroPartImplementation.java:658)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.intro.impl.model.AbstractIntroPartImplementation.standbyStateChanged(AbstractIntroPartImplementation.java:249)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.intro.impl.model.IntroPartPresentation.standbyStateChanged(IntroPartPresentation.java:443)
        at org.eclipse.ui.intro.config.CustomizableIntroPart.standbyStateChanged(CustomizableIntroPart.java:265)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewIntroAdapterPart$2.run(ViewIntroAdapterPart.java:74)
        at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:67)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewIntroAdapterPart.setStandby(ViewIntroAdapterPart.java:70)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewIntroAdapterPart$1.propertyChanged(ViewIntroAdapterPart.java:55)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.fireInternalPropertyChange(WorkbenchPartReference.java:374)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.fireZoomChange(WorkbenchPartReference.java:539)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setZoomed(PartPane.java:343)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.setZoomed(PartStack.java:1526)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartSashContainer.zoomIn(PartSashContainer.java:880)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartSashContainer.childRequestZoomIn(PartSashContainer.java:901)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.LayoutPart.requestZoomIn(LayoutPart.java:354)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.setState(PartStack.java:1501)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.setState(WorkbenchPage.java:3765)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.toggleZoom(WorkbenchPage.java:3837)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchIntroManager.setIntroStandby(WorkbenchIntroManager.java:201)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchIntroManager.showIntro(WorkbenchIntroManager.java:136)
        at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.openIntro(WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.java:173)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEWorkbenchWindowAdvisor.openIntro(IDEWorkbenchWindowAdvisor.java:456)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.open(WorkbenchWindow.java:750)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$21.runWithException(Workbench.java:1045)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:130)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3312)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2985)
        at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.openWindows(WorkbenchAdvisor.java:801)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$25.runWithException(Workbench.java:1350)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:130)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3312)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2985)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2312)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2222)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$4.run(Workbench.java:474)
        at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:288)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:469)
        at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:106)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:106)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:76)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:362)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:564)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1251)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 213194 ***