Hi,

I'm a heavy user of Eclipse. It's my workhorse. Today, the thing started crashing on me. So, I started the thing from the console to see what the last message is before crashing, but...nothing. It crashes whenever I hover over something that is supposed to give a pop-up (you know, the yellow-ish popup with a help text).

Any clues to what I can do to remedy this? As I noted, there are no return messages, so, that's all I have here... :/

Thanks

Thor
Edit : tried this : make a new (clean) workspace - copied-pasted the content of the old space (src only) - did a refresh, no luck, still a crash

Perhaps you can find some info in the bugzilla page, or file a bug.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
Do you have the latest version of eclipse and java?

Kind regards

Hi,

Java is 6u24, the latest...eclipse is at 3.6.2-1
I did a system update and possibly something went wrong. If only I knew what elcipse needed fixed (feedback from the thing)...there goes the current project. This is gonna cost money...

I'll check the bugs...

Tnx

Thor

EDIT : it ave me something, maybe not what I need but hey, it's a clue:

Okay, at the risk of bumping my own thread, the "culprit" is xulrunner.
After the system-wide update, I had FireFox 4, that thing uses xulrunner 2.0, Eclipse is not compatible with xulrunner 2.0, There is a workaround, but you'll need to run it from the console:

And effectively force Elcipse to use the "good" xulrunner"...

That is the situation until this thing sweats out...

Maybe I'll mark this as solved? Dunnow...

Thor

Edit : it is possible to edit the launcher, enter the console, become Root. Start gedit (or whatever editor your DE has) and open a file browser. Drag-n-drop /usr/share/applications/eclipse (the launcher) into the (root openend) gedit window, see the "exec" tag? It says "eclipse" - nothing more, add this to it

basically the same as when started from the console.
Save and exit root mode. The launcher should work properly now...

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