[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: ganymede crashes on start

[Sean Burlington <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

   Thanks for the links - it's always good to have some things to check

Doesn't look like one of those issues though

I'm on 32bit Linux - all packages are 32bit

Eclipse Europa runs fine - it's just Ganymede that crashes on start

I'm using Suns Java (not gcj) I've tried 1.5 and 1.6

but interestingly if I pass the vm argument I at least get a message in 
the dialog box :-)

"An error has occurred. See the log file
/home/sean/workspace2/.metadata/.log."

though it still looks like the same log I posted before :-(

I do have firefox 3 on my system - but it's not the default browser, not 
installed in a default location and Ganymede still crashes (even when 
firefox isn't running)


I can see a few bug reports if I search for "Widget disposed too early" 
 but nothing that looks conclusively like the same thing ...

I've been running eclipse for years, installed it on numerous systems 
(both Windows and Linux)  - I've not had a problem like this before.




Nick Boldt wrote:
> Could it be one of these?
>
> http://blog.hantsuki.org/2008/06/26/eclipse-just-crashed-so-im-going-to-file-a-bug-now/ 
>
>
> Or are your versions of Eclipse & JDK mismatched (64-bit vs. 32-bit) ?
>
> See also http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC_FAQ
>
> Nick
>
> Sean Burlington wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    I've been using eclipse for quite a while - and have been trying to 
> > run ganymede - but it keeps crashing on start
> >
> > The splash screen shows, I select a new workspace, and then get a 
> > small empty window and eclipse stops ...
> >
> > I've attached the full log - but this seems to be the key bit
> >
> > eclipse.buildId=I20080617-2000
> > java.version=1.5.0_15
> > java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
> > BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
> > Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -debug -consolelog
> >
> > !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 0 2008-07-04 10:45:06.560
> > !MESSAGE Widget disposed too early!
> > !STACK 0
> > java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
> >         at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference$1.widgetDispos
> >
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 8 with KDE 3.5 and have tried both
> > eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
> > and
> > eclipse-jee-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
> >
> > I've also tried java 1.6 as well as 1.5
> >
> > Any help much appreciated