[eclipse-maintainers] Re: Running Eclipse 3.0.1 packages on a few VMs

Thomas Fogwill tfogwill@csir.co.za
Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:57:41 +0200


Thanks for the new version, Jerry. I see you fixed the startup.jar
issue :)

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 02:19 -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> > Also, eclipse crashes occasionally on kaffe during
> > startup with an SWTException (Widget is disposed).
> 
> I wonder, but does this crash also happen when eclipse is compiled with
> Sun's JDK?

Yip, same thing happens. I used 1.4.2, and get the same error.


> > [SableVM] ... thread "Framework Event Dispatcher" timed out waiting (5000ms) for
> > thread "Main-1" to finish ...
> 
> Yes, we've seen this before.  It is not good it ignores a lock after
> only 5 seconds.  Maybe, as a debian-specific patch we could have this
> timeout somewhat increased?  20s?

I was hoping that it would be as simple as that, but unfortunately, it
seems not to be. I increased the timeout (to 60s), but the problem
persists (it just takes a LONG time to throw the exception now :)

Any ideas?

Cheers
-- 
Thomas Fogwill <tfogwill@csir.co.za>


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