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Eclipse on Athena updated to 3.7m1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Sep 7 13:49:24 2010
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Cc: alexp@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:49:22 -0400
I've updated the Eclipse Java SDK on Athena to 3.7m1. To run it:
add -f eclipse-sdk
eclipse
>From my message to users:
Eclipse on Athena has been updated to release 3.7m1 and this version
has been made the default. Both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported.
There is an intermittent problem with this version of Eclipse which we
haven't been able to resolve. It shows up as a crash on launch, right
after the splash screen initializes and just before the GUI should
open. The error messages are verbose and typical of Java error output,
with a reference to libgobject-2.0.so near the beginning. This seems
to be a known issue but fixes are hard to come by; it's most likely due
to a GTK bug.
If you retry, you should eventually get it to launch though this may
take a number of attempts (possibly as many as 8-10). Some users are
affected more than others (we've seen failed launch attempts vary from
about 10% to 80% for different users) but we don't know why.
Once it does launch it appears to run correctly, though we haven't
done extensive testing. The problem seems to be rare or non-existent
on 32 bit machines or on the locally installed /usr/bin/eclipse in
case using those are an option. The latter is a bit dated however, and
doesn't include the standard add-ons we preinstall in the locker
versions (C/C++ development, Pydev, Subclipse).
We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please read file
/mit/eclipse-sdk_v3.7m1/README.athena in the eclipse-sdk_v3.7m1 locker
for important additional information.
Alex
