Eclipse e4 Kepler SR2 crashes on Kubuntu 14.04 when hovering over a Java element

Question

The Java runtime reports:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fe7241924cf, pid=9456, tid=140630721804032
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_55-b13) (build 1.7.0_55-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.55-b03 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0xc4cf]  _dl_rtld_di_serinfo+0x2dbf

The Java stack in the hs_err_pid*.log looks like this:

Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.webkit.WebKitGTK._webkit_web_view_new()J+0
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.webkit.WebKitGTK.webkit_web_view_new()J+7
j  org.eclipse.swt.browser.WebKit.create(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Composite;I)V+212
j  org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Composite;I)V+81
j  org.eclipse.jface.internal.text.html.BrowserInformationControl.isAvailable(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Composite;)Z+12

Answer 1

The accepted answer from Why does my Eclipse Indigo crash on Ubuntu 13.04 with Oracle JDK 64bit? worked for me:

Append

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla

to the end of your eclipse.ini (specifically after the -vmargs option).

If you now get crashes in XULRunner, disable that as well:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/dev/null