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Bug 321218 - Crash on startup after installation of GWT & AppEngine Plugins
Summary: Crash on startup after installation of GWT & AppEngine Plugins
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.7 M1   Edit
Assignee: Scott Kovatch CLA
QA Contact: Silenio Quarti CLA
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Keywords:
: 335729 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-07-29 08:00 EDT by Bayard Randel CLA
Modified: 2011-02-07 14:52 EST (History)
6 users (show)

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Call stack/thread dump (48.13 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-29 08:02 EDT, Bayard Randel CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Bayard Randel CLA 2010-07-29 08:00:20 EDT 
Build Identifier: Helios 3.6 (unable to retrieve build due to startup crash)

After installing the GWT and Google AppEngine plugins from http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.6, Eclipse crashes on startup.
Env: OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard), Java 6 Update 2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install GWT and App Engine SDKs from http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.6
2.Restart Eclipse
3.
Comment 1 Bayard Randel CLA 2010-07-29 08:02:23 EDT 
Created attachment 175489 [details]
Call stack/thread dump

attached call stack dump
Comment 2 Andrew Niefer CLA 2010-07-29 10:38:12 EDT 
What happens if you add -nosplash to the command line or eclipse.ini file?
Comment 3 Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-07-29 13:05:33 EDT 
Unfortunately, the change for bug 308844 caused this because it masks a Java exception being thrown during startup. I'll try a local fix that backs that out and then I'll paste in the Java exception.
Comment 4 Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-07-29 13:06:33 EDT 
Try Andrew's suggestion of -nosplash, too. It should get you around the crash.
Comment 5 Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-07-29 17:40:43 EDT 
After rolling back the change in callback.c, it looks like something is swallowing/handling the Java exception because I can't get an exception dump to appear. The other interesting part is that I don't see any startup messages in the splash screen, but Eclipse still launches.

Fixed in HEAD > 20100729. This is probably a 3.6.1 candidate.
Comment 6 Scott Kovatch CLA 2011-02-07 14:52:26 EST 
*** Bug 335729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***