Bug 277343 - [Net] Eclipse cannot start on RHEL3 with linux-motif
Summary: [Net] Eclipse cannot start on RHEL3 with linux-motif
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Team (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-Motif
: P3 blocker (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.5 RC2   Edit
Assignee: Platform Team Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Pawel Pogorzelski CLA
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Reported: 2009-05-21 12:09 EDT by Grant Gayed CLA
Modified: 2009-05-22 16:11 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Grant Gayed CLA 2009-05-21 12:09:40 EDT 
Created attachment 136671 [details]
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3.5RC2 test build

- launch eclipse, and the attached crash happens as soon as the workbench is shown
- this works fine on RHEL4, which gives the appearance of the native library having been built on a linux newer than RHEL3
- also note that eclipse-gtk does work on RHEL3
- here's where it's crashing:

"main" (TID:0x08193500, sys_thread_t:0x081034A4, state:R, native ID:0x00002B3F) prio=6
at org/eclipse/core/internal/net/proxy/unix/UnixProxyProvider.getGConfProxyInfo(Native Method)
at org/eclipse/core/internal/net/proxy/unix/UnixProxyProvider.getSystemProxyInfo(UnixProxyProvider.java:166)
at org/eclipse/core/internal/net/proxy/unix/UnixProxyProvider.getProxyForTypes(UnixProxyProvider.java:69)
...
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2009-05-21 12:32:38 EDT 
Well, that's no good, see bug 268321.
Comment 2 Szymon Brandys CLA 2009-05-21 12:41:27 EDT 
Pawel is on the issue right now. AFAIK we built the lib on RHEL4 which seems to be the oldest supported reference platform. I may be missing something, so Pawel will elaborate tomorrow.
Comment 3 Grant Gayed CLA 2009-05-21 12:47:41 EDT 
SWT makes a point of compiling its libraries on RHEL3 in order to be usable as far back as there.  This floor was chosen somewhat arbitrarily though (it's the oldest linux install around here), so I don't know what eclipse's plan is regarding old linux versions.  Given that the gtk release does work for me on RHEL3, this may not be critical.
Comment 4 Pawel Pogorzelski CLA 2009-05-22 03:47:07 EDT 
Here's the information how the library is built:

platform:         linux.gtk.x86
built by:         Pawel Pogorzelski, Pawel.Pogorzelski@pl.ibm.com
build date:       17-October-2008
OS Name:          Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3, update 3
OS Version:       Linux 2.4.21-20.EL
Compiler version: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-42)
Java version:     Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_17-b06)
Comment 5 Pawel Pogorzelski CLA 2009-05-22 06:34:17 EDT 
Grant, the fix for 268321 will resolve your problem as well. Could you try it and confirm the problem is gone?
Comment 6 Pawel Pogorzelski CLA 2009-05-22 06:45:08 EDT 
I've opened bug 277440 to track the cause of the problem. If we hunt it down proxy support for GNOME will be enabled in 3.6.
Comment 7 Grant Gayed CLA 2009-05-22 14:53:17 EDT 
This now works for me in the 20090522-1126 build (it's available on our internal mirror).
Comment 8 Pawel Pogorzelski CLA 2009-05-22 16:10:34 EDT 
Marking as FIXED, thanks Grant.