Bug 2218367

Summary: Eclipse is unusable under any Java 17 JRE after update to Fedora 38.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: August Schwerdfeger <august>
Component: java-17-openjdk-portableAssignee: jiri vanek <jvanek>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact:
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Version: 38CC: ahughes, jandrlik, jerboaa, jvanek, pmikova, zzambers
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Description August Schwerdfeger 2023-06-28 21:53:06 UTC 
After an update to Fedora 38, versions of Eclipse prior to 2022-06 are unusable when run under the Java 17 JRE from the Fedora repositories, being very prone to crashing with segfaults in the native part of the SWT library.

The attached trace is from an attempt to start the "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" version 2022-03, freshly installed using the Eclipse Installer, on a new workspace.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The crashes happen reliably, but not the same way every time. I can usually get a crash on startup when I use the "Eclipse Installer" to install "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers," version 2022-03, pointed at the system's Java 17 JRE, and try to create a new workspace (put the name of a nonexistent directory in the "Workspace" text box in the "Eclipse IDE Launcher" dialog). If it survives the startup, using Ctrl+Shift+G to look up references to a Java class invariably causes a crash.
Comment 1 August Schwerdfeger 2023-06-28 21:54:35 UTC 
Created attachment 1973038 [details]
Trace from Eclipse crash on startup.
Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-28 13:16:16 UTC 
Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

Fedora Linux 38 is no longer maintained, which means that it
will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we
are closing this bug.

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