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Bug 352289 - eclipse crashes when i try to preview BIRT report in the internal viewer
Summary: eclipse crashes when i try to preview BIRT report in the internal viewer
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 351910
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: BIRT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Birt-Chart-inbox@eclipse.org CLA
QA Contact: Maggie Shen CLA
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Reported: 2011-07-17 11:12 EDT by Charles Franklin CLA
Modified: 2011-08-18 03:38 EDT (History)
4 users (show)

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shows errors associated with eclipse crash (9.07 KB, application/octet-stream)
2011-08-07 11:49 EDT, Charles Franklin CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Charles Franklin CLA 2011-07-17 11:12:59 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110218-0911 and 20110615-0604

I experienced frequent crashes in helios when I first installed it, but I implemented the various fixes and the crashes stopped. However, recently I've been doing some report development using the BIRT plugin and even when I try to preview an empty report eclipse crashes.I am not seeing anything useful in the /opt/eclipse/.log.

I even tried installing Helios, but I get the same issue. So that made me think that it was a jvm heap size issue. I doubled it in the eclipse.ini, but that still didn't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a new Report Project
2.Open the new_report.rptdesign
3.Click the preview tab
Comment 1 Charles Franklin CLA 2011-07-17 11:16:08 EDT 
Edit:I tried installing Indigo and got the same issue
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2011-07-17 11:49:33 EDT 
Look for VM hs_err_pid crash logs.
Comment 3 Charles Franklin CLA 2011-07-17 11:55:16 EDT 
Thanks for the quick reply!

The last vm crash log was modified Jul 5 located in /home/[user]/. I just started working on BIRT reports 3 days ago. There are no vm crash logs with today's date in that directory. Unless there is another directory that they output to that I'm unaware of.
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2011-07-18 03:48:00 EDT 
Also look in the directory where the JRE and the eclipse executable is installed.
Comment 5 Charles Franklin CLA 2011-07-18 08:04:50 EDT 
I didn't see any logs in either one of those directories
Comment 6 Oleg Besedin CLA 2011-07-18 09:39:19 EDT 
Usual suspects:
- check that you are not running out of PermGen or Heap memory
- check with a clean download of Eclipse and clean workspace
- check with a clean download of JVM
Comment 7 Charles Franklin CLA 2011-07-18 19:30:05 EDT 
Followed the following steps to no avail. Are you not able to reproduce the issue in a similar environment?
Comment 8 Xiaoying Gu CLA 2011-07-22 00:53:38 EDT 
We don't have this issue in our environment.

What's the detail Linux version and JDK version you were using?
Comment 9 Charles Franklin CLA 2011-08-07 11:49:30 EDT 
Created attachment 201046 [details]
shows errors associated with eclipse crash
Comment 10 Charles Franklin CLA 2011-08-07 11:52:06 EDT 
Comment on attachment 201046 [details]
shows errors associated with eclipse crash

I had given up on working on reports in Fedora and since moved to Windows for reports and they work fine there. However, I don't want to have to switch OS's in order to work on reports.

I have come back to troubleshooting reports in Fedora and I noticed a file, .xsession-errors, that gets updated everytime eclipse crashes. I've tried to make sense of whats in the file, but I can't. Maybe whats contained in this file will make sense to you guys.

Please take a look at the enclosed attachment.
Comment 11 Xiaoying Gu CLA 2011-08-18 03:38:18 EDT 
looks like similar to #351910.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 351910 ***