Eclipse exits on openSUSE 11.4

aecordoba · March 14, 2011, 6:28pm

Hi there!
I just installed Eclipse Helios on a fresh installation of openSUSE 11.4 (32 bits), and when I stop the cursor over any class name or method name in a source file, Eclipse exits unexpectedly.
When I start Eclipse again, it starts as usually… But again, when I stop the cursor over any class name or method name in a source file, Eclipse exits again.

Note: I have installed jdk 1.6 and NVIDIA 173.14.28 for my FX5500 video board. I use KDE desktop environment installed from openSuse 11.4 DVD. (No extra applications.)

Now, I had to re install openSUSE 11.3 in order to work with Eclipse again.

Do you have any idea?

Thank you, in advance.

martin_helm · March 14, 2011, 10:31pm

What does eclipse show as terminal output after the crash if you start it
from the command line?

aecordoba · March 14, 2011, 10:52pm

I’m sorry, but I had to re install openSUSE 11.3 in order to work with Eclipse again.
I beg your pardon.

aecordoba · March 15, 2011, 7:43pm

Nobody with the same problem?

martin_helm · March 15, 2011, 8:35pm

aecordoba wrote:

>
> Nobody with the same problem?
>
It is a problem: How can we help you to solve your problem if you no longer
have the system where the problem appears? And hence cannot give us more
detailed information.
I only can tell you that on my eeepc 1201n (which is not yet in the footer)
with os 11.4, gnome 2.32, 64 bit and using eclipse helios sr2 there is no
problem at all (at least not until now). So it is a bit difficult to tell
from a system that works what might be the reason why another system does
not work with the same opensuse version and which does no longer exist since
you downgraded it.

aecordoba · March 15, 2011, 9:17pm

Martin:
All data you gave me are valuable data.
For example: My Eclipse Helios version was not SR2 and openSUSE 11.4 was 32 bits with KDE desktop environment.
I understand you.
But I trying to find out if the problem was on my particular installation/environment.
If somebody tried the same environment (openSuse 11.4 32 bits with KDE desktop) and Eclipse Helios SR2 with good results, I’d again try to re install 11.4 and test again.
But that is too much work with my development environment (certain java version + apache httpd + apache tomcat + oracle + setting all options) that I need to work, if I go forward an go back every day.

Thank you again.

martin_helm · March 15, 2011, 10:07pm

I know that does not help you much so I hope someone jumps in who has a
similar installation as yours (32 bit and kde, I think kde or gnome is
unrelated but who knows) and can give advise.
I had a somewhat similar problem with helios on my notebook in the company
which I thought was an eclipse problem but it was not. It was one of the
plugins (in my case the subclipse plugin). The solution was then to change
some library via yast to another version (do not remeber which).
Since you seem to have a lot of plugins installed as far as I understand,
you should consider also the possibility that it is one of the plugins (if
the error did not happen before you installed the plugins).

Just one suggestion. If nobody has an idea what might be the reason for the
problem, you can do the following:
If your system is powerfull enough or you can use a pc for that, install
11.4 in a virtual machine (vbox or vmware), set your environment up with
eclipse helios sr2 and check if it works.
At least you can even if it does not work find info about the crash post it
here or google for it and probably the solution will be as simple as
changing one of the conflicting libs in the system.
I know this is maybe a lot of work depending on your environment, but that
is what I need to do to ensure that my development notebook works before I
upgrade it, since it has also a somewhat complicated setup.

beli0135 · March 16, 2011, 12:39am

Using eclipse as flex developer for years, so here is my 2 cents.

Uninstall Eclipse if you have installed it from repositories
Go to eclipse site and download desired version (classic, for C++, for Java… or what you need)
unpack to a directory you will keep it and make shortcut so you can start it easily (eclipse does not need to be installed, just run it)
Before you run it, open eclise.ini and increase the memory usage of it. Double the size its there by default. Then you can experiment.

this should be some minimal values:

-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-XX:PermSize=64m

you may wish to increase -Xms256m to 512 and -Xmx to 1024m (go upto 2048m if you have 4GB of ram)

aecordoba · March 16, 2011, 1:17am

Thank you! I’ll try your suggestions.

Note: I didn’t install Eclipse from a repo. I installed it by “tar -zxvf” of the Java EE Eclipse edition from eclipse.org.
Thank you again.

m_amazirh · March 16, 2011, 4:05pm

Hi!
I installed opensuse 11.4 and I encountered the same problem.
I have eclipse JEE Helios SR1 running with java-1_6_0-sun-devel & java-1_6_0-sun.
Whenever I try to autocomplete a package name with CTRL+SPACE, eclipse crashes and BugDaddy shows up asking me if I want to save the bug report.(link to the report)

link to the output of eclipse on the terminal after the crash.

Thanks in advance for your help.

aecordoba · March 16, 2011, 4:42pm

It seems like Eclipse exits every time it want to pop up a code assistant frame.
I’d like to try with Eclipse Helios SR2.

Thank you for answer.

beli0135 · March 16, 2011, 11:01pm

I would suggest you try a bit older version of Eclipse. If you have enough time, try to get Classic. If that works, probably is something with Java package.

malcolmlewis · March 16, 2011, 11:17pm

Hi
Someone is working on version 3.6.2 which should be in the repos
soon… I spotted a conversation on IRC #opensuse-gnome today

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.29-0.3-default
up 2 days 4:12, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.08
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.26

m_amazirh · March 17, 2011, 1:05am

Hi again !
After some googling, I found that there is a bug report about this issue here : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679107

kharesam · March 21, 2011, 5:02pm

Hi,
I also faced the same issue. I had to download the latest version of eclipse, i.e. 3.6.2 to get it working.

Sameer

malcolmlewis · March 21, 2011, 5:47pm

Hi
There is a 3.6.2 version in Index of /repositories/home:/decriptor:/eclipse

beli0135 · March 22, 2011, 1:20am

I was advising you before and will advise you again: DO NOT USE Eclipse FROM REPOSITORIES
I find myself expirienced in this matter as I am not esporadic Eclipse user, but I work in it every day for last 3 years. Simply, do not use eclipse from repo.

malcolmlewis · March 22, 2011, 1:58am

Hi
Why not? Have you raised bugs against the build or talked with the
packager on IRC or the mailing lists about your concerns?

<rant>How are packagers meant to read users minds unless they report
issues?</rant>

Here is some info on the packager…
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Decriptor

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.29-0.3-default
up 1 day 2:09, 3 users, load average: 1.26, 1.57, 1.45
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.26

m_amazirh · March 24, 2011, 2:38am

Hi!
I just want to let you know that using Helios SR2 solved the issue for me.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=340402

beli0135 · March 24, 2011, 4:14pm

@malcomlewis, I am sorry, I never had time for problems. Though I tried several times, I never made Adobe Flex to work in repo’s eclipse, so I have given up. However, this was the test:

install, try, not working (no successful compilation)
(2 min after) remove eclipse
download from eclipse site (or use backup eclipse)
unpack and start working.

Since working with adobe flex (flash builder) professionally, I had no time to loose. Lost time == lost money.