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Bug 326017

Summary:	Causes a crash on some background process
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	pete <p>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	matthias.sohn, remy.suen, robin.rosenberg, stefan.lay
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description pete

2010-09-22 19:29:54 EDT

Build Identifier: 0.8.4

A PyDev project imported from git causes Helios (Eclipse 3.6.0) to crash every few minutes.  I haven't EGit with other perspectives so I don't know if they'd crash too, but I can confirm that without EGit, CDT, PyDev, and EPIC are all stable.  So it's definitely some EGit + <perspective> combination.
More often than not, I noticed that it tends to crash the VM after saving a file.  The save proceeds successfully, but then Eclipse crashes within few seconds.  I'm guessing the crash occurs in the code section of some background process triggered by the save file event.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Eclipse 3.6.0
2. install PyDev 1.6.2
3. install EGit 0.8.4
4. clone some git repo that contains python code
5. import the python project from the git repo
6. make some changes to some files and save
7. repeat step 6 a few times until eclipse crashes

Comment 1 Matthias Sohn

2010-09-27 09:48:21 EDT

Could you point me to some public repo containing python code were you can observe this problem. I have no such repo at hand since I don't use python.

Comment 2 Remy Suen

2010-09-28 15:01:30 EDT

Please attach the crash logs generated by the Java VM.

Comment 3 Stefan Lay

2010-10-22 07:38:58 EDT

Can you reproduce that with the nightly build?

Update site: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-nightly

Comment 4 Robin Rosenberg

2012-10-06 17:27:14 EDT

My guess is that this is one of the JVM GC bugs that appear when memory pressure is high. I think you can close it since the reporter has not added any info

Comment 5 Robin Rosenberg

2012-12-30 12:25:44 EST

No response