Eclipse hanging on OS X

[Tom Davies]

I've found another hang on OS X -- but fortunately I have a solution
for this one.

The stack trace is this:

"Worker-3" prio=5 tid=0x0113cec0 nid=0x19cb600 runnable
[0xb092d000..0xb092ed10]
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)
- locked <0x24bb44b8> (a java.util.Vector)
- locked <0x24bb44d0> (a java.util.Vector)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1668)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:822)
- locked <0x24bb3800> (a java.lang.Runtime)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:992)
at
sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1509)
at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1530)
at java.awt.Color.<clinit>(Color.java:250)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
at
org.openquark.cal.eclipse.core.CALEclipseCorePlugin.start(CALEclipseCorePlugin.java:
107)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl
$2.run(BundleContextImpl.java:999)
...

it looks like a manifestation of this problem:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=67384#c29

I fixed it by defining the system property apple.awt.usingSWT as true
-- see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=67384#c127

Tom

[Tom Davies]

Oops -- I thought my previous post hadn't turned up -- and I shouldn't
say 'another' hang, as as far I can tell 1.5.0 fixes the problem I had
before.

Tom

[Edward]

Hi Tom,

Just to make sure -- are you still having the problem with 1.5.0?
... and if not, are you having to do anything special (such as
defining system properties) to work around the problem?

Thanks,
- Edward

[Tom Davies]

Hi Edward,

There were two problems -- the one I originally reported had the
symptom that a timeout was reported in the log file. This hasn't
happened to me on 1.5.0. The second problem has the symptom that a
thread dump shows loadLibrary hanging while initialising awt, in
response to a Color instance being created. I've only seen this on
1.5.0.

To fix the second problem I added the line:
-Dapple.awt.usingSWT=true
to the end of the file /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/
MacOS/eclipse.ini

My Java version is:
java version "1.5.0_07"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-164)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-87, mixed mode, sharing)

Regards,
Tom

[Edward]

Hi Tom,
Thanks very much for the info.
We have a change in now which sets the system property
programatically, so hopefully others using Mac won't be needing to set
their own system properties when getting started in Eclipse.

Thanks,
- Edward