Thanks Alex.  I believe that fixed the issue for me as well.  It appears it
must have been an issue with the older version of OpenJDK, and this new
release has somehow resolved it.

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Alex Little
<584...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> I was getting the same problem - Eclipse seemingly randomly crashing -
> and it was getting extremely frustrating - it would generally happen
> within 5 to 10 mins of Eclipse starting, but could also be after only a
> few seconds or half an hour. But I recently installed the
> icedtea6-plugin package and the problem no longer occurs. I have no
> explanation for why this seems to fix the problem, but thought it may be
> useful to try out?
>
> --
> Eclipse crashes randomly with JRE error
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584551
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>
> Status in “eclipse” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: eclipse
>
> I'm not sure if this is an Eclipse issue or JDK issue.  It seems to happen
> regardless of whether OpenJDK or Sun's JDK is in use.  There is no
> consistency to when it happens, it just seems to randomly happen while
> editing source code in Java perspective.
>
> I run Eclipse with the following command:
> eclipse -vmargs -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
> This forces Eclipse to use IPv4, and allows me to fetch and send things
> across the Internet.  Not sure if that is related.
>
> Here is the console output after crash and the Java error report is
> attached.  There are several error reports, and all contain different
> information.  The failure (as I mentioned previously) seems to be random,
> failing in main thread, VM thread, and other random threads.  I will
> continue to attach error logs as they continue to appear.
>
> d...@hostname:~$ eclipse -vmargs -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
> #
> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
> #
> #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x01417c5b, pid=3186, tid=101477232
> #
> # JRE version: 6.0_20-b02
> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (16.3-b01 mixed mode, sharing
> linux-x86 )
> # Problematic frame:
> # V  [libjvm.so+0x3abc5b]
> #
> # An error report file with more information is saved as:
> # /home/dan/hs_err_pid3186.log
> #
> # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
> #   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
> #
> Aborted
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: eclipse 3.5.2-2ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun May 23 09:13:47 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386
> (20100419.1)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: eclipse
> xulrunner-versions: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.3
>
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