IV68194: ECLIPSE CRASHES ON REDHAT LINUX

APAR status

• Closed as Vendor Solution.

Error description

• ERROR MESSAGE
  Eclipse crashes with a segmentation fault shortly after
  launching.
  The following message is printed on the console:
      java: cairo-misc.c:380: _cairo_operator_bounded_by_source:
  Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed.
  A dialog saying "JVM terminated. Exit code=1" may appear.
  
  STACK TRACE
  Java stack (partial):
  
  "main" J9VMThread:0x0000000001616500,
  j9thread_t:0x00007FC28402D580,
  java/lang/Thread:0x00000000C00FFB20, state:R, prio=6
   (java/lang/Thread getId:0x1, isDaemon:false)
   (native thread ID:0x588C, native priority:0x6, native
  policy:UNKNOWN, vmstate:R, vm thread flags:0x00000000)
   (native stack address range from:0x00007FC28AFE7000,
  to:0x00007FC28B9E8000, size:0xA01000)
    CPU usage total: 40.374888738 secs, current
  category="System-JVM"
     Heap bytes allocated since last GC cycle=5220784 (0x4FA9B0)
     Java callstack:
      at org/eclipse/swt/internal/cairo/Cairo._cairo_fill(Native
  Method)
      at
  org/eclipse/swt/internal/cairo/Cairo.cairo_fill(Cairo.java:248)
      at org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Caret.drawCaret(Caret.java:129)
      at org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Caret.showCaret(Caret.java:544)
      at org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Caret.setFocus(Caret.java:390)
  
  Native stack (partial):
    gsignal+0x35 (0x0000003913832625 [libc.so.6+0x32625])
    abort+0x175 (0x0000003913833E05 [libc.so.6+0x33e05])
      (0x000000391382B74E [libc.so.6+0x2b74e])
    __assert_perror_fail+0x0 (0x000000391382B810
  [libc.so.6+0x2b810])
    (0x000000392321B118 [libcairo.so.2+0x1b118])
    (0x000000392322E737 [libcairo.so.2+0x2e737])
    (0x000000392322B09F [libcairo.so.2+0x2b09f])
    (0x0000003923213C7A [libcairo.so.2+0x13c7a])
    cairo_fill_preserve+0x20 (0x000000392320E8E0
  [libcairo.so.2+0xe8e0])
    cairo_fill+0x9 (0x000000392320E8F9 [libcairo.so.2+0xe8f9])
    Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_cairo_Cairo__1cairo_1fill+0xc
  (0x00007FC277FBB0F1 [libswt-cairo-gtk-4335.so+0xa0f1])
  

Local fix

• WORK AROUND
  Add the following line:
      -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.cairoGraphics=false
  to eclipse.ini after the "-vmargs" line
  
  Installing a newer version of the operating system or of Eclipse
  may also resolve the problem.
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This is a known issue with the Cairo graphics library used by
  Eclipse.  It is not caused by the Java Virtual Machine.
  
  No Java VM changes are required.
  

APAR Information

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Fix information

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