Bug 157083 - Launching of Eclipse app freeze the Operating System
Summary: Launching of Eclipse app freeze the Operating System
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 152386
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: eclipse
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: eclipse-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-06 17:37 UTC by Manjunathan Padua Yellappan
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-27 17:56:32 UTC
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Description Manjunathan Padua Yellappan 2005-05-06 17:37:16 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3

Description of problem:
Dear Developer,
 After a successful installation of Fedora Core 4 Test 2 yesterday, I launched the Eclipse (native version).  As soon as the selected the workbench from the first window that is displayed after the eclipse splash screen, the OS freezes. 

After this I cannot do anything.... I have to reboot the system.

Can you please fix this issue.

Thanks,
Padua


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.11-1.1226_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch the Eclipse IDE
2.Splash screen is displayed for few seconds
3.Then the first window of eclipse is displayed 
4. After this system freezes/hangs indefinutely.
  

Actual Results:  The system freezes, I have to reboot. this happens everytime I try to use eclipse.

Expected Results:  System must not freeze and I must be able use Eclipse IDE.

Additional info:

None
Comment 1 Andrew Overholt 2005-05-06 18:28:13 UTC 
Were you trying to run Eclipse as the root user?
Comment 2 Tom London 2005-05-27 16:23:52 UTC 
Running latest rawhide.

I accidently ran eclipse as root and got a system freeze.

ALT-CTL-F2 and ALT-CTL-DEL have no effect; had to hard reset/reboot.

/usr/log/messages shows nothing.....
Comment 3 Aaron Luchko 2005-05-27 17:56:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152386 ***
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