Eclipse crashes on Ubuntu?

spaaarky21 · 04-11-2007, 12:56 AM

I'm trying to setup the "Servers" view in Eclipse so I can easily deploy a webapp to JBoss 4. However, once I enter some of the info, select JBoss and hit next, the license agreement box pops up momentarily... and then Eclipse crashes and I get a little summary with the command that Eclipse was run with. The same thing happens when I select Tomcat or the generic profile. I looked around a little online and found someone who had the same problem but the solution was to upgrade the JVM or rebuild the Java libraries or something like that. I installed everything from Synaptics so I can't really do that. Has anyone else had a similar problem or at least know how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated.

-Brandon

graemef · 04-11-2007, 02:00 AM

Which version of Java are you using?
Some Java apps won't run with the GNU Java compiler, this might be the issue... Sorry I can't be any more specific.

Do you get a backtrace, if so that might help isolate the problem. If not you could try running eclipse from a terminal you should then get the backtrace in the terminal.

taylor_venable · 04-11-2007, 08:12 AM

I've had trouble running Eclipse from the repository because it wants to use GCJ for Java, which as graemef said causes problems with some Eclipse add-ons. Try de-installing GCJ, adding the Sun JDK (this you can get from the repository), and then downloading Eclipse from its project website at http://www.eclipse.org/

spaaarky21 · 04-11-2007, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by graemef

Which version of Java are you using?
Some Java apps won't run with the GNU Java compiler, this might be the issue... Sorry I can't be any more specific.

Do you get a backtrace, if so that might help isolate the problem. If not you could try running eclipse from a terminal you should then get the backtrace in the terminal.

Yeah, I had some trouble getting things up and running with GNU at first. After enabling the "multiverse" repository, I am using the Sun 1.5 version of everything.

Unfortunately, I don't get a stack trace, just a list of parameters passed to the JVM when Eclipse was launched.

spaaarky21 · 04-12-2007, 12:34 AM

If it helps, here is what I get when Eclipse crashes at the license agreement screen. Still no luck getting it to work.

Code:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.1/classmap.db
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 118010
-install /usr/lib/eclipse
-vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java
-vmargs
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.1/classmap.db
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
-Dosgi.locking=none
-jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar

spaaarky21 · 05-02-2007, 12:30 PM

To anyone who might have a similar problem, I figured it out. The problem is that even after installing Sun Java 1.5, the version of Eclipse that was installed through apt-get was still configured to use GNU Java instead of "asking the system" which JRE to use. I looked through the config files a little and found a place or two where the GNU JRE was specified but still couldn't get the plug-ins working and ultimately decided I was better off with a clean install straight from eclipse.org. I then installed the plug-ins I wanted through the "Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install" menu. Now it works great and I can use the J2EE plug-ins without crashing.

Considering that the plug-ins that caused the crashes were available directly through apt-get using the default Ubuntu repositories, I'm surprised no one caught this. Or has no one installed Eclipse through apt-get/Synaptics?

-Brandon