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Bug 359278

Summary: Report Viewer Crashes on Linux
Product: z_Archived Reporter: John Conlon <jconlon>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Birt-ReportViewer <Birt-ReportViewer-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Maggie Shen <lshen>
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3 CC: bluesoldier, nquintero
Version: 3.7.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Conlon CLA 2011-09-28 13:00:03 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS the BIRT Report Viewer crashes on the second invocation. 

java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)

Confirmed Indigo BIRT Report Viewer crashes on two different machines running Ubuntu 10.04, while previous Helios release works fine.
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and install eclipse-reporting-indigo
2. Create a Report Project and a Report using the Classic Models sampleDb
3. Right click on the report > Report > Run Report
4. Close the Report Viewer and run it again (Step 3)
Comment 1 John Conlon CLA 2011-09-28 13:01:54 EDT 
Created attachment 204204 [details]
Crash console output
Comment 2 Noel Quintero CLA 2011-09-29 13:30:33 EDT 
Hi.

I have the same issue on Ubuntu 11.04. 



Regards.


Noel Quintero
Comment 3 John Conlon CLA 2011-10-05 12:57:39 EDT 
As a workaround, set the user Preferences | Report Design | Preview - Always use external browsers to true.

This will at least avoid crashing Eclipse and allow one to preview reports.