[news.eclipse.tools] Workbench shutdown does not complete

[Pat McCarthy <patmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having an intermittent problem during the shutdown of the workbench.

The UI goes away and I can start the workbench again without trouble,
but the first javaw.exe is still running in the background (not doing
much).  I can get four or five of these hanging javaw.exe processes left
running and consuming virtual memory.

I thought I was alone with this problem as I could not get others to
mimic my results on their machine.   I've now found several others that
do have this problem but have not found anything consistent in the
config that would help identify why this occurs.

We do know that it seems to happen when the help perspective has been
used/is left up when we shutdown.  If I close the help perspective and
go through a shutdown/restart/shutdown cycle - the process is closed
after the second shutdown (but the process from the first shutdown is
still there).

I've got IE 5.00.3103.nnnn installed.  It does not happen on a
team-mates machine (he has IE 5.50.4134.nnn), but it does happen on
another machine where IE is at 5.50.42nn.nnnn.  So there does not seem
to be a relationship between the IE level and the hanging javaw.exe
processes.

I can get the same behavior if I start the workbench (run or debug) from
a plugin in the PDE.  The task stays in the debug window after the
launched workbench is shutdown (but closes nicely if I close the help
perspective and shutdown/restart/shutdown).

Is there a startup option I can use to find out why the javaw.exe
process hangs?

Thanks,
    Pat Mc.