eclipse IDE crashes after seconds with JVM terminated. Exit code=1

Question

Hi .. I'm using eclipse IDE Galileo fine on Ubuntu 10.04.(with JRE in the eclipse root directory) When I tried to download and use new eclipse HELIOS it crashes instantly or after 10 seconds maximum with this error message

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx384m
-jar /home/arefaey/devel/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /home/arefaey/devel/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /home/arefaey/devel/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.0.v20100503/eclipse_1307.so
-startup /home/arefaey/devel/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
-exitdata 1758045
-product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx384m
-jar /home/arefaey/devel/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar 

I googled and tried many suugestions :

• Changed the eclipse directory
• Changed the workspace directory
• changed the eclipse.ini -Xmx256 to 512 or higher
• Deleted the eclipse.ini file.
• Copied the JRE directory -which works with Galileo- to the HELIOS root directory

It woud be great if I got help with that as HELIOS is really faster.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Which JVM do you invoke with? Eclipse Helios works well with the Sun JVM under Ubuntu 10.04.

Answer 2

There is a known bug when using Helios with Java 6u21 on windows, apparently sun changed the name of one of the parameters or something .

There was a discussion a while back on the eclipse forums about adding a message to the main download screen, but apparently they didn't do it.

Newsgroup link

also

Link to the bug

Answer 3

I know some people has had the same issue with Eclipse using x86_64 versions of Ubuntu and the JVM.

There is a workaround here

Answer 4

Can this be the reason: Eclipse and Java 6u21 problems

Answer 5

There's known issue with Helios and Java 1.6.0_21. wiki.eclipse has a solution (workaround) already.

In brief, either:

• Switch back to 1.6.0_20
• increase perm gen space to 256 MB
• download and use a patched dll.

Here's the link to the wiki page

Answer 6

I installed OpenJDK and it worked fine

Answer 7

I have the same issue running ubuntu 10.04 64 bit:

but I am not using 21.

:/opt$ java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode)