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Bug 361211

Summary:	[Help] A search on a topic i.e prog causes eclipse javascript to crash with exit code=1
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	lives20545
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ccc, cgold
Version:	3.7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description lives20545

2011-10-18 03:35:31 EDT

Build Identifier: Build id: 20110916-0149

while using help contents, and searching for a topic, Eclipse crashes and exit code = 1 is displayed c:\windows\system32\javaw=1.5
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open up Eclipse
2. help > help contents > search > input some topic
3.Search for the topic
4. crash

Comment 1 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-10-18 18:51:26 EDT

I'm not sure why you are seeing this, search is working fine on both of my systems.  

What OS are you on? Can you attach a screen shot of the help system before it crashes?

Comment 2 lives20545

2011-10-18 20:56:36 EDT

In trying the same procedure today, the problem is no longer occurring.
I tried it several times and the error did not come back. I am not sure what the solution was but this occurred yesterday and the power down of the system may have helped. I therefore will assume that the problem may have been due to the operating system and that a reboot fixed the issue. I therefore will close the bug as "Not_Eclipse.