Eclipse crashes on startup on ubuntu 12.04

Question

I just find that eclipse always crashes on my laptop with ubuntu 12.04 installed. And I tried different versions of eclipse (3.6 / 3.7 / 4.2). I also tried many other eclipse based applications, none of the applications work. It worked fine a few days ago, so I think it should be something wrong with the latest libc update.

Error message

Unhandled exception Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x00040000 J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000004 Signal_Number=0000000b Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=00000080 Handler1=B4BDAA36 Handler2=B4BB0021 InaccessibleAddress=00000000 EDI=08306E58 ESI=92F2BB43 EAX=BFB87E14 EBX=B7754FF4 ECX=00000000 EDX=0000000B EIP=B76E15C5 ES=007B DS=007B ESP=BFB85324 EFlags=00010246 CS=0073 SS=007B EBP=B75AE6C0 Module=/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 Module_base_address=B75AF000 Target=2_40_20130114_134867 (Linux 3.2.0-39-generic-pae) CPU=x86 (4 logical CPUs) (0x1f1439000 RAM) ----------- Stack Backtrace ----------- (0xB4BA3B76 [libj9prt24.so+0xbb76]) (0xB4BAF66C [libj9prt24.so+0x1766c]) (0xB4BA3C09 [libj9prt24.so+0xbc09]) (0xB4BA3D2C [libj9prt24.so+0xbd2c]) (0xB4BA39A8 [libj9prt24.so+0xb9a8]) (0xB4BAF66C [libj9prt24.so+0x1766c]) (0xB4BA3A1C [libj9prt24.so+0xba1c]) (0xB4BDB771 [libj9vm24.so+0xf771]) (0xB4BDB3F1 [libj9vm24.so+0xf3f1]) (0xB4BAF66C [libj9prt24.so+0x1766c]) (0xB4BDABD6 [libj9vm24.so+0xebd6]) (0xB4BB0199 [libj9prt24.so+0x18199]) (0xB779740C) --------------------------------------- 

Does anyone get into this same problem recently? Is there a workaround?

thanks

Answer 1

Ubuntu 12.04 is not a supported platform for Eclipse 4.2. 10.04, however, with IBM Java 6 SR9.

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_4.2.php#TargetOperatingEnvironments

Since you are using IBM Java, I would suggest using OpenJDK or Oracle Java instead. Note. This is to run Eclipse itself - you are still using IBM Java for your own code inside Eclipse.