Eclipse Core Dump

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:10:03PM +0200, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> Jonathan Chen wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:00:47PM -0600, Derek Young wrote:
> >>Too busy this weekend to make a pr or check if one is there, blah
> >>blah.. Ran portupgrade this morning to jdk14 patchset 8, and eclipse
> >>got upgraded at the same time..
> >>
> >>An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
> >>Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x286DCF57
> >>Function=inflate_fast+0x17
> >>Library=/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/libzip.so
> >
> >A similar bug to this is be solved by:
> >
> >    portupgrade -uf freetype\* fontconfig\* libXft\*
> >
> >However, having said this, I upgraded eclipse just yesterday, and this
> >workaround did not work. The `inflate_fast+0x17' bug also exists for
> >eclipse + JDK1.5. I wonder if this could this be fixed by using the
> >system zlib instead of the one shipped with the JDK.
> 
> FWIW, I'm still running with the patch that uses the system zlib on 
> jdk15 and I've never encountered any related crash using eclipse daily 
> on my day job. This is on i386, though.

Would you mind sharing the patch with the rest of the list? If it
works well enough, we could maybe include it in the port as an option.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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