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After Eclipse is launched and the Eclipse IDE is active with a work-in-progress Java program being developed, after a few minutes, the application crashes with a General Protection Fault where it complains about javaw.exe causing an exception. At other times, Windows 98 either freezes while typing in the Eclipse IDE window or freezes when the mouse is clicked. One time, the screen suddenly went blank and the machine rebooted on its own. This is getting to be a real pain, because of the frequent freezes or GPF exceptions. I am not able to write more than a few lines of code without it freezing and having to reboot. Essentially, it appears that Eclipse v3.1 with J2RE V1.4.2 is unworkable in Windows 98. This happened on a Win98 laptop and on a Win98 desktop. Am I doing anything wrong? Is there anything I should be doing beyond installing Eclipse by double-clicking on the .zip file? Are there any configuration steps to take for Windows 98 after installation? Do I need to set the PATH in the autoexec.bat file? All I did to install Eclipse is double click and follow the defaults. The only thing I changed from the default was the location of the user workspace files where I pointed it to a different directory/folder than the one that comes up by default. No configuration changes were made to Windows. I am wondering if Win98 requires some specific configuration changes, such as PATH etc. Thanks.
Windows 98 is not tested or actively support for Eclipse 3.1 - there have been many similar reports but no conclusions about what is causing the problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86800 ***
