Eclipse crash with a cairo error in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Applications which is having a dependency on Eclipse are getting aborted with a cairo error.
java: cairo-misc.c:380: _cairo_operator_bounded_by_source: Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed
  • Eclipse based IBM Installation Manager GUI crashes on RHEL 6.6
  • Eclipse Kepler is giving an error after updating to RHEL 6.6
  • Application was working fine on RHEL 6.5 . However after RHEL 6.6 update, it no longer works but exits with a cairo error.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • Eclipse
  • gtk2-2.24.23-6.el6
  • cairo-1.8.8-3.1.el6

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