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Bug 530598

Summary:

[Cocoa] VM Crash when closing parent Web Browser window

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Andreas Sewe <sewe>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

lshanmug

Version:

4.8

Keywords:

triaged

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Mac OS X

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Crash Report that would have been sent to Apple	none
Screenshot illustrating the situation	none

Description Andreas Sewe

2018-02-01 04:37:49 EST

Created attachment 272490 [details]
Crash Report that would have been sent to Apple

Hi,

I've found a reliable way to crash the Eclipse process under macOS (10.10.5).

To reproduce:

- Using I20180124-2000, install the "Code Recommenders News Feed" from [1] and restart.

- Under General > News, add the Planet Eclipse news feed with URL <http://planeteclipse.org/planet/rss20.xml>.

- Poll the feed by clicking "Poll Now" in the RSS status bar item's menu.

- Open the post titled "Chris Aniszczyk: Winding Down an Open Source Project". This opens in a browser in the editor area.

- Click on the "@todogroup" link. This opens a window titled "Web Browser".

- Click on the "todogroup.org" link in the Twitter sidebar. This opens another window titled "Web Browser". (Note that I had to click "Continue first on a certificate warning for the "https://todogroup.org/" site.)

- Close the parent "Web Browser" window.

This crashes the Eclipse process with the following message:

eclipse(1351,0x7fff75f93300) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fdedfeccf90: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Abort trap: 6

I've attached the crash report that normally would have been sent to Apple, figuring that this is more likely an Eclipse / SWT / Browser integration issue.

[1] <http://download.eclipse.org/recommenders/updates/stable/>

Comment 1 Andreas Sewe

2018-02-01 04:43:46 EST

Created attachment 272491 [details]
Screenshot illustrating the situation

I've attached the screenshot to illustrate the relationship between the different browser windows. Hope that helps.

Comment 2 Andreas Sewe

2018-02-02 10:47:03 EST

(In reply to Andreas Sewe from comment #1)
> Created attachment 272491 [details]
> Screenshot illustrating the situation
> 
> I've attached the screenshot to illustrate the relationship between the
> different browser windows. Hope that helps.

FWIW, just verified this with the Photon M5 Java EPP package. Still crashes.

Comment 3 Lakshmi P Shanmugam

2018-02-06 01:28:14 EST

I'm unable to reproduce this with the steps in comment#0. I'm on Mac 10.12.
Can you try this on Mac 10.12 or 10.13 and see if the problem is still reproducible?

Comment 4 Lakshmi P Shanmugam

2018-11-22 07:39:16 EST

(In reply to Lakshmi Shanmugam from comment #3)
> I'm unable to reproduce this with the steps in comment#0. I'm on Mac 10.12.
> Can you try this on Mac 10.12 or 10.13 and see if the problem is still
> reproducible?

Closing as there was no response. Please reopen if problem is still reproducible on 10.13 or 10.14.