Why does my Eclipse Luna 4.4 crash on Debian Wheezy 7.4 with Oracle JDK8 64bit?

Question

I have Debian GNU/Linux 7.4 (wheezy) OS installed on Oracle VirtualBox and:

java version "1.8.0_11" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_11-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.11-b03, mixed mode) 

I downloaded Eclipse Luna 4.4. When I was trying to run Eclipse an error occurred:

A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f9e8a42173f, pid=10942, tid=140319582553856 JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_11-b12) (build 1.8.0_11-b12) Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.11-b03 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops) Problematic frame: C  [libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x5173f]  gdk_display_open+0x3f Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java 

So I issued a command in the terminal:

$ ulimit -c unlimited $ ./eclipse 

But the next error occurred:

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0 (java:11276): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GdkDisplayManager' (java:11276): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `result != 0' failed (java:11276): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed (java:11276): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (java:11276): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (java:11276): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (java:11276): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (java:11276): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GdkDisplay' (java:11276): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `result != 0' failed (java:11276): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_register_static: assertion `parent_type > 0' failed (java:11276): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `result != 0' failed (java:11276): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f216d28473f, pid=11276, tid=139782222493440JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 

(8.0_11-b12) (build 1.8.0_11-b12) Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.11-b03 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops) Problematic frame: C [libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x5173f] gdk_display_open+0x3f Core dump written. Default location: /home/abcdef/ECLIPSE_JAVA/eclipse/core or core.11276

I also tried to solve this problem by adding:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla 

to eclipse.ini, but it didn't help.

Can anybody help me with this problem?

Answer 1

According to: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430736

Add to 2 lines eclipse.ini:

--launcher.GTK_version 2 

The option --launcher.GTK_version should be before --launcher.appendVmargs

Problem (dialogs does not work properly) with TIBCO Jaspersoft® Studio - Visual Designer for JasperReports:

edit Jaspersoft Studio.ini like this:

-startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.100.v20150511-1540.jar --launcher.GTK_version 2 --launcher.library 

Or add this before start Jasper Studio (runubuntu.sh):

export SWT_GTK3=0