[news.eclipse.platform] Re: 3.1/3.2 Crash on OSX when choose file dialog

[Alex Blewitt <automatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I develop on a dual 2.0 G5, and I haven't seen this at all. It could be a problem with the filesystem being corrupt, for example. Either that, or it could be symptomatic of a memory or other hardware problem.

The fact that you're seeing the same kind of problem in both 3.1 and 3.2 suggests that it's possibly an issue with your machine rather than a specific bug. Or, it could be something with the JRE if (for example) you've installed the Java 1.5 Update 3 series (which I haven't).

My advice would be to follow the same Mac debugging issues; run Disk Utility, and select 'repair disk' and 'repair permissions' to check that the disk is healthy. If you're using one of the Java 1.5 updates, I'd suggest downloading the whole thing again from ADC rather than an update, and re-install it. You might like to get rid of the old version first so that it thinks it's doing a fresh install rather than an upgrade, by getting rid of references in the /Library/Receipts folder and /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/B (or whatever the 1.5 install masquerades as).

Given that both Eclipse installs will call out to Mac's Java libraries to display an open file dialog certainly suggests to me that your Java install on your Mac is probably the culprit.

Alex.