eclipse segfaults (jvm with signal 11) on startup

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Hi,

I have installed 2 systems (athlon-tb and pentium3) with the 1.2 iso-image and used the 1.4.tbz. On the Pentium-System (compiled with march=i686 ...) everything works fine, on the Athlon-System (compiled with march=athlon-tb ...) I cannot start eclipse-motif. On startup the jvm (sun-jdk 1.4.0_01-b03) segfaults with signal 11 and no further output.

I have tried to compile eclipse from source, but ant (1.4.1-r3) also segfaults. So I tried downloading jdk 1.4.1-rc, ant 1.5 and compiled eclipse 2.0.1 from source. But when starting this self-build-version of eclipse, I get the same error, jvm segfaults with signal 11 (with both versions of sun-jdk, 1.4.0_01-b03 and jdk 1.4.1-rc).

It does not seem to be a java-problem, because NetBeansIDE 3.5, LimeWire or Java-Plugin in Konqueror work.

Finally I have tried to install the gtk-version of eclipse via emerge - same result.

Has anybody the same troubles running eclipse or any hints?

Simon

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Would it make sense to rebuild the whole system with -march=i686? Thats the only major difference between my two system.

How do I do that, if I want do rebuild gcc, glibc, (steps from bootstrap-process) ... also?

Will it impact performance? (At the moment I have zero performance, cause I can't even start eclipse)

???

Simon

chatwood2 · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:59 pm Post subject:

I am running an Athlon XP (optimised with i686 march), sun-java 1.3.1_03. I installed eclipse from the installer at eclipse.org (not from portage). And eclipse works fine.

I am not sure which of the differences between our setups allow mine to work and your to not, but you might want to try a setup close to mine.

- Chris

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 12:13 am Post subject:

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Hi Erik,

I used the motif-version of eclipse directly from there website, not from portage, haven't built eclipse myself. Eclipse seems to depend on some librarys which are built with -march=athlon-tbird.

As I mentioned, I have tried to build eclipse from source, but had the same results.

Thanks,
Simon

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

So, here we go.

I have installed the Athlon-system yesterday from scratch, with CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" options.

Tryed eclipse (motif-version from eclipse-website and gtk-version via portage) with sun-jdk 1.3.1_01, 1.4.0_01 and 1.4.1-rc. It's giving me the same effects, the Java VM exits with Signal 11 and no further Information.

Puhh - any hints what I can do now?

Simon

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

I too have this problem with my desktop installation. I used the 1.2 distribution upgraded to GCC3.2. It segfaults. I then tried to stick to 1.2 with CFLAGS="-mpcu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe". Still segfault.
I finally gave up and use windows instead.
It's very strange, because I installed gentoo several months ago in my laptop using the 1.1a CD, and Eclipse runs well on it.

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

It is really strange, got two machines, one athlon, one i686, both systems quite the same setup. On my i686 eclipse works fine, on the athlon it segfaults.

It's nice, not to be the only one ;o)

Simon

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

I tried both blackdown-jre and sun-jdk, and used -verbose when running Java. Both segfaults, but at different points.
I'm downloading the 1.4_rc1 live CD right now, and see if it works.

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Please post, if it works, but I don't think so. ;o(

Simon

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

I'm actully hoping that it won't work so it makes it easier for people to regenerate the segfault, and help us.

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gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

Alright. I tried using the 1.4_rc1 Live CD, and mounted my (ReiserFS) partition that has eclipse 2.01 (motif) and blackdown-jre in it.
I'm using the verbose mode output of Java and it seg fault after loading org.eclipse.update.core.model.DefaultSiteParser.

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Hmmm,

is that goor or bad ;o)

Wired troubles.

Simon

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

Ok, it tried the Live CD in my notebook (where Eclipse works), mounted my (ext2) partition that contains Eclipse and blackdown-jdk and it segfault at the same point.
Now, should I file a (Gentoo) bug report for this?

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

A bug report on gentoo, one on eclipse, and another one to the world ;o)

Post the bug-# to subscribe

Simon

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

Gentoo Bug#8003.
I think this is not an Eclipse bug, because it works on other Linux installations (my Gentoo notebook, my friend's RedHat, etc).

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

thx

Simon

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

I tried using ibm-jdk and it worked fine now. I have a keyboard problem in eclipse though. It does not recoqnize the numpad arrows. Maybe something wrong with my keyboard settings, but I can live with it.

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Works for me too!

Simon

taglass · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 3:57 pm Post subject:

Works just fine here.

Relevant info:
Distro: 1.4_rc1
Kernel: 2.4.19-gentoo-r9
Processor: Athlon 1GHZ
Version: 2.0 from portage
JRE: IBM 1.3.1 from portage and Sun 1.4 from portage

werpu · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 24

But I just finished to install Gentoo.

I have the same problem Eclipse segfaults during the intialization on me.
So far I haven't had any success to get it up and running. I was just asking if anyone already has figured out where the problem is?

werpu · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 24

Ok I think I found a workaround, you have to run Eclipse in the IBM JDK1.3.1 (maybe sun 1.3.x works as well). With this combo eclipse seems to work. I don't really know where the bug is but the combo JDK 1.4.1 with Eclipse either crashes with code 11 at initialization or crashes afterwards (if the init already is done) quite often, I think it must be some kind of JNI issue (maybe GCC 3.2). So I'd say go for a JDK 1.3.x to run Eclipse and then use a newer one for running your programs within Eclipse.

gojira · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 23

I don't think GCC3.2 is the problem. I'm running Gentoo with 2.95 and Eclipse still segfaults using the Sun JDK 1.4.1

werpu · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 24

I'm not really sure if this is an eclipse problem or some weird stuff caused by GCC and the abi canges. As I said, run Eclipse within the IBM JDK and use as external runtime JDK1.4.1 so at least you can run and compile your programs against 1.4.1

The strange thing is that generally the JDK 1.4.1 performs pretty well on my box. I have a demanding program which basically drains the last bit out of Java2d and this one ran without a hitch. Same goes for JEdit. Its only Eclipse which causes these problems. I'm not quite sure where the problem is, I personally think, that the SWT runs 1.4.1 into a segfault condition.

werpu · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 24

I finally found out what the cause is. It simply is the gentoo generic kernel. I switched back to the standard vanilla kernel and eclipse now runs blazingly fast (thanks to 1.4.1 which makes a huge difference) also finally wine seems to work as expected (just started putty)