[karlgannon]

Eclipse 3.0.1 crashes after doing an install of MyEclipse 3.8.4. I then un-installed MyEclipse and changed Eclipse version to 3.1 and downloaded the MyEclipse Installer for that version, but still the problem persists. If I un-install MyEclipse the problem no longer exists.

Currently I have Eclipse 3.1 – build ID: 200412162000
MyEclipse build ID: 200502031200-3.8.4+QF2-BetaFor3.1
I saw a similar post about eclipse crashing, but that mentioned a plugin – org.eclipse.gef_3.0.0 – which I do not have in my plugin directory..

Help with this would be greatly appreciated

[Riyad Kalla]

Karl,
Very strange in deed… Let’s stick with the Eclipse 3.0.2 (or .1) stable and MyEclipse 3.8.4 stable installs for now. When you install MyEclipse and start it up and it “Crashes” what happens? Any errors? Did you check the log file? <workspace dir>\.metadata\.log

[karlgannon]

I un-installed MyEclipse beta and changed Eclipse back to 3.0.1 and re-installed the stable MyEclipse release.

By “Crashing” I mean that when I try to do a project build, it will start and then terminate Eclipse during the build. I get a “JVM terminated. Exit code=1” error in a dialog box. I checked the log file under Eclipse but didn’t see anything that would cause this particular problem I thought. The following is the last couple of lines in the Eclipse logs since I changed back to 3.0.1 and the stable MyEclipse version.

eclipse.buildId=M200409161125
java.version=1.4.1_01
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_IE

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 2 1 Mar 29, 2005 16:30:01.211
!MESSAGE Skipping builder com.ibm.etools.validation.validationbuilder for project JBoss. Either the builder is missing from the install, or it belongs to a project nature that is missing or disabled.

I am using JDK version 1.4.1_01 – that should be ok though, yes?

Karl

[Riyad Kalla]

I would highly encourage you to upgrade to JDK 1.4.2_07, the early 1.4.1 releases and even 1.4.2 releases had some bugs that Eclipse had problems with (also 1.4.0 was a lot of problems as well).

ALSO, please try shutting down Eclipse, editing the shortcut you use to start it, and adding the “-clean” command line argument, that will allow it to regenerate it’s plugin cache which by now is all screwed up (mix of Eclipse 3.0.x and Eclipse 3.1.x data).

[karlgannon]

I am currently downloading JDK 1.4.2_07. Does MyEclipse and Eclipse 3.0.1 work ok with this version and also JDK 1.5 (5.0)?

I added the “-clean” option to the Eclipse startup script, but it is still terminating when I try do a project build.

Do you think that the problem is to do with the JDK version?

[Riyad Kalla]

Are you absolutely sure there is no exception in your .log file? Also please past your command line that you are using to start Eclipse (it could be running out of memory, which causes this problem too).

[karlgannon]

Yes I checked the .log file and nothing new was written there since I tried to do a build again and even after the re-start of Eclipse.

My startup script consists of the following:
C:\eclipse>eclipse.exe -clean -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx256m

I think I already tried to increase the memory to 512 but that still didn’t fix the problem – I must try that again now to be sure…..

[Riyad Kalla]

Hmm that looks fine…

[karlgannon]

Everything seems ok now (fingers crossed anyways!) since I upgraded to JDK 1.4.2_07….MyEclipse mustn’t work very well with the old 1.4.1_01 JDK…
Thanks for your help with this problem.

Regards,
Karl

[Riyad Kalla]

Glad to hear it!

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