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Bug 353052

Summary:

Eclipse hangs on load, and on opening a file

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

dastmaz

Component:

IDE

Assignee:

Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

QA Contact:

Severity:

critical

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, remy.suen

Version:

4.1

Keywords:

needinfo

Target Milestone:

---

Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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Description dastmaz

2011-07-25 19:32:00 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

Eclipse is hanging upon startup. When I was lucky enough to have the IDE actually open, it would hang when trying to open a file of any extension. I've been trying for about an hour, running it with -clean and disabling any plugins I have. The error text that is being thrown is attached.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open eclipse.
2. Open file.

Comment 1 dastmaz

2011-07-25 19:33:19 EDT

Created attachment 200315 [details]
Dump

Comment 2 Remy Suen

2011-07-25 20:35:51 EDT

Please attach a stack dump.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/How_to_report_a_deadlock

Comment 3 Oleg Besedin

2011-07-26 09:27:35 EDT

Note this line in the error message:
   -vm C:\Windows\system32\javaw.exe

This is there the Eclipse gets JVM to use. The JVM has to be:

- Java 1.5 or better; preferably not an update 21 (see bug 319514);
- If 64-bit Eclipse is used, it needs 64 bit VM; if 32 bit Eclipse is used, it needs 32 bit VM
- Consider increasing PermGen: add the following line after "-vmargs" to your eclipse.ini:
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
- consider increasing max Heap size

Does that help?

Comment 4 Oleg Besedin

2011-07-26 10:30:32 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Note this line in the error message:
>    -vm C:\Windows\system32\javaw.exe
> 
> This is there the Eclipse gets JVM to use.

Which can be changed by using "-vm" runtime argument with the Eclipse executable or in its ".ini" file.

Comment 5 Oleg Besedin

2011-08-03 10:24:56 EDT

See comment 2 and comment 3.