Eclipse (3.5 and 3.6) crash in ubuntu

Question

I have a problem with eclipse inside ubuntu 10.04 (x86). I installed eclipse by downloading the zip file, not from the sources. everything worked fine until I decided to try eclipse 3.6, which I downloaded the same way as with 3.5 ...

I saved 3.6 in a different directory than 3.5, launched it and opened the workspace created with 3.5. after a little work with 3.6, I notice the following problem:

in some cases when I type sth as CLASSNAME. or VARIABLE. (that is, when the code completion dialog box opens), eclipse crashes when I try

• close the code completion window (for example, by pressing ESC)
• select sth from the code completion window.

or something else. This problem did NOT occur for 3.5 at ANY time. ok - switching to old 3.5 did not solve the problem. This version also crashed :(

so I tried:

• delete the file /home/USER/.eclipse
• reinstall java from sources
• create a completely new workspace
• tried the eclipse version from sources (3.5)

nothing helped: (

I have no ideas ... how do I get rid of this problem?

Answer 1

Looks like error 308731 , which is related to XulRunner.

I confirm that Steffen's solution works for me, and I need to set the property " -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath ".

I have installed:

 -vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9.2 

in eclipse.ini

(Crash when pressing Enter when selecting content)

Answer 2

Add -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla to the end of your eclipse.ini file

This works for me :)