Eclipse Segfault (OSX)

Question

I'm trying to start eclipse but it crashes after the splash screen and before workspace selection.
This is version: eclipse-java-indigo-SR2-macosx-cocoa-x86_64 on Mac OSX 10.6.8
Launching the eclipse application or executing the alias from a shell ./eclipse (or Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse) results in a segfault.

$ ./eclipse
Invalid memory access of location 0x10 rip=0x7fff84ea3164

Segmentation fault

However, it runs successfully as the super user

$ sudo ./eclipse
Password:

This is fine for now, but running eclipse under sudo does not seem like a good idea.
To make this stranger still, this installation of eclipse worked fine a few months ago and I can't remember changing anything relevant.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Answer 1

Before taking the more drastic step of re-installing Java on Mac OS X [not always so simple :( .. ], I just reinstalled Eclipse and ADT - and it worked fine after that.

In my case, I got this error trying to start Eclipse

Segmentation fault: 11

.. it appeared in my Eclipse ADT setup after I updated the Android SDK for Google Play Services, and then tried to run Installation of update from "Check For Updates". Restarting the computer did not help.