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Bug 326017 - Causes a crash on some background process
Summary: Causes a crash on some background process
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
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Reported: 2010-09-22 19:29 EDT by pete CLA
Modified: 2012-12-30 12:25 EST (History)
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Description pete CLA 2010-09-22 19:29:54 EDT 
Build Identifier: 0.8.4

A PyDev project imported from git causes Helios (Eclipse 3.6.0) to crash every few minutes.  I haven't EGit with other perspectives so I don't know if they'd crash too, but I can confirm that without EGit, CDT, PyDev, and EPIC are all stable.  So it's definitely some EGit + <perspective> combination.
More often than not, I noticed that it tends to crash the VM after saving a file.  The save proceeds successfully, but then Eclipse crashes within few seconds.  I'm guessing the crash occurs in the code section of some background process triggered by the save file event.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Eclipse 3.6.0
2. install PyDev 1.6.2
3. install EGit 0.8.4
4. clone some git repo that contains python code
5. import the python project from the git repo
6. make some changes to some files and save
7. repeat step 6 a few times until eclipse crashes
Comment 1 Matthias Sohn CLA 2010-09-27 09:48:21 EDT 
Could you point me to some public repo containing python code were you can observe this problem. I have no such repo at hand since I don't use python.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2010-09-28 15:01:30 EDT 
Please attach the crash logs generated by the Java VM.
Comment 3 Stefan Lay CLA 2010-10-22 07:38:58 EDT 
Can you reproduce that with the nightly build?

Update site: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-nightly
Comment 4 Robin Rosenberg CLA 2012-10-06 17:27:14 EDT 
My guess is that this is one of the JVM GC bugs that appear when memory pressure is high. I think you can close it since the reporter has not added any info
Comment 5 Robin Rosenberg CLA 2012-12-30 12:25:44 EST 
No response