Eclipse is crashing in libxul

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We did a yum update and now Eclipse is crashing very often in the libxul library:

    # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
    #
    #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xaf7d03a6, pid=4285, tid=3086072016
    #
    # JRE version: 6.0_23-b05
    # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (19.0-b09 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
    # Problematic frame:
    # C  [libxul.so+0xe4b3a6]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Eclipse

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