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vigilandy

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Registered: 2010-10-31

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Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

After a recent package update, eclipse began crashing with alarming frequency. After some research, it seems eclipse (helios) doesn't yet support xulrunner 2 yet firefox 4 now uses xulrunner 2.

What I'm wondering is
1) Has anyone else come across this issue?
2) Is my diagnosis at all accurate?

I'm looking for a way to resolve this and am checking if anyone else has any insight.

Thanks.

vigilandy

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Registered: 2010-10-31

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Following the advice from http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/12/using-w … se-helios/, I added the following line to /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

This seems to be doing the trick, in that operations that were previously crashing eclipse are not causing any trouble.

Last edited by vigilandy (2011-03-23 03:29:49)

made_in_nz

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From: Wellington, New Zealand

Registered: 2010-01-04

Posts: 53

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Thanks, that also works for me.

AlexLG

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Registered: 2009-07-30

Posts: 4

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Thanks, works for me too

DaleMox

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Registered: 2010-06-17

Posts: 4

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Following the advice from http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/12/using-w … se-helios/, I added the following line to /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

This seems to be doing the trick, in that operations that were previously crashing eclipse are not causing any trouble.

Same here as well.. Thanks!

Kirodema

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Registered: 2010-01-08

Posts: 81

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

This doesnt work for me . First I solved it by downgrading xulrunner to 1.9* and it worked again, but today I got an update for gnome-shell and it seems that gnome-shell requires xulrunner 2.0 (otherwise it won't start). I tried adding -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true at the end of eclipse.ini, but it didn't seem to change anything.

db@kirodema ~ $ LANG=en_GB eclipse
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x619045a2, pid=9555, tid=3077756608
#
# JRE version: 6.0_24-b07
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (19.1-b02 mixed mode linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libxul.so+0xc395a2]
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/db/hs_err_pid9555.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
/usr/bin/eclipse: line 4:  9555 Aborted                 ${ECLIPSE_HOME}/eclipse "$@"

As it seems, eclipse only crashes as soon as the auto-completion is kicking in but I can't say that for sure.

Edit:

I found out, that you have to change the xulrunnerpath in eclipse.ini https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23392#comment73883
Add the following line and it should work if the WebKitGTK solution isn't working for you

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath==/usr/lib/xulrunner-2.0/

Last edited by Kirodema (2011-03-29 19:47:29)

md2k7

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Registered: 2011-01-22

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Thanks, I was just about to get angry.

hokapoka

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Registered: 2011-04-05

Posts: 5

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

I'm using the testing repo and I can confirm that setting eclipse to use WebKitGTK in the ini fixes the crashes I was experiencing when using the autocomplete.

Thanks for suggestion.

jprudent

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Registered: 2011-02-07

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

setting eclipse to use WebKitGTK in the ini fixes the crashes for me too

ngoonee

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

To all - there's no real need to keep confirming that this fix works, it just needlessly bumps the thread. If someone would take this issue up with eclipse upstream (because that's the correct place for it) that would be good, for the meantime this easy workaround is available.

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aparaatti

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From: Finland/Jyväskylä

Registered: 2009-11-21

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

For some reason the WebKitGTK fix stopped working for me (maybe could have a little something to do with upgrading to gnome3 from testing), but changing the xulrunner path, as Kidorema suggested above, fixed the issue again...

How come this is upstream problem, isn't the location of files handled in the packaging process? (not that I know anything about packaging)

edit.

...so gnome update brakes the WebKitGTK for eclipse (I have libwebkitgtk-1.0 and libwebkitgtk-3.0 around, but here http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php they say that it works with libwebkitgtk-1.2 and higher).

Last edited by aparaatti (2011-04-20 06:46:09)

dioltas

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Registered: 2009-06-03

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Following the advice from http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/12/using-w … se-helios/, I added the following line to /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse.ini:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

This seems to be doing the trick, in that operations that were previously crashing eclipse are not causing any trouble.

Thanks, this seems to have fixed it for me. Was searching for a solution for a while.

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

This fix is not working now, after I installed Gnome3.

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dikei

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Registered: 2010-12-08

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

This fix is not working now, after I installed Gnome3.

The latest libwebkit is also not compatible with eclipse.
Try replacing

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

with

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-2.0/

DaleMox

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Registered: 2010-06-17

Posts: 4

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Replacing the UseWebKitGTK flag with the XULRunnerPath flag fixed eclipse again for me too. Thank you!

dikei

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Registered: 2010-12-08

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Actually, you could replace the "/usr/lib/xulrunner-2.0" path with anything. Because Eclipse do not support xulrunner2,  the internal browser will be disable anyway.

Last edited by dikei (2011-05-02 17:43:24)

theDOC

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From: Aachen, Germany

Registered: 2009-06-18

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

since gnome3 the webkit library name changed from libwebkit-1.0.so to libwebkitgtk-1.0.so, so I did

ln -s libwebkitgtk-1.0.so libwebkit-1.0.so.2

and

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

works again

dioltas

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Registered: 2009-06-03

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Thanks theDOC, that's fixed it again for me.

The browser works and eclipse not crashing.

jasvazquez

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Registered: 2011-05-11

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

since gnome3 the webkit library name changed from libwebkit-1.0.so to libwebkitgtk-1.0.so, so I did

ln -s libwebkitgtk-1.0.so libwebkit-1.0.so.2

and

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

works again

It didn't work for me (also tried making a symbolic link as libwebkit-1.0.so)
any suggestion?

jasvazquez

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 2

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

This fix is not working now, after I installed Gnome3.

Did you solved it? Thx.

txusko

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

since gnome3 the webkit library name changed from libwebkit-1.0.so to libwebkitgtk-1.0.so, so I did

ln -s libwebkitgtk-1.0.so libwebkit-1.0.so.2

and

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

works again

It didn't work for me (also tried making a symbolic link as libwebkit-1.0.so)
any suggestion?

I registered just to say ... Thank you!!!

hobarrera

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

since gnome3 the webkit library name changed from libwebkit-1.0.so to libwebkitgtk-1.0.so, so I did

ln -s libwebkitgtk-1.0.so libwebkit-1.0.so.2

and

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK=true

works again

This is the only solution of all the ones mentioned here that worked.
This should be reported upstream, it seems like a really silly bug, bug with eclipse-htmleditor, the editor won't even load without this fix.

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sandstorm

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From: Zurich [CH] & Mannheim [DE]

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Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

Has this been posted as a bug? I could not find it in the bug database.

Best regards
Martin

nikagra

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From: Wroclaw, Poland

Registered: 2011-04-03

Posts: 16

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

What about gnome 3?

count-corrupt

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 112

Re: Eclipse Firefox and xulrunner

since gnome3 the webkit library name changed from libwebkit-1.0.so to libwebkitgtk-1.0.so, so I did

ln -s libwebkitgtk-1.0.so libwebkit-1.0.so.2

This kind of fix has been destroying linux installations since the advent of shared libraries. In three days you will have forgotten about that link. But next time a piece of software on your machine looks for that library will think it found the version it was looking for while the one it actually found may export completely different symbols. Do this more regularly and your system will crash and behave randomly in no time and you will never be able to track this down. That's when you see people leaving their 'shitty' distro behind because 'I was just using it normally and all of a sudden, nothing worked - assholes'.

I work with eclipse a lot and often need more than one installation of it in different versions. On Windows that's no problem but on Linux, at least using a package manager it is. The only way we found it to work reliably across different distros and over major- the same as minor updates is to download the binary distribution of eclipse and tar -x it to /opt. We usually create a group 'eclipse' and chown the path to it. That way, every user on a system can use, update and modify it easily. And no distro update will monkey with that installation.