Eclipse scala-ide won't start after installing Mac OS X Sierra (Mac OS 10.12)

Question

Eclipse quit Unexpectedly error is showing up.

Process: eclipse [1612] Path:
/Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse Identifier:
scalaide.product.id Version: 1.0.0 (1.0.0.201605041117) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: eclipse [1612] User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2016-11-05 08:25:36.767 +0530 OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.12 (16A323) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID:
756B4B0B-5772-3B0B-F072-86AA384C8784

Sleep/Wake UUID: 9458E0FB-8ADB-4FF1-AF46-A0CE9A6FC72D

Time Awake Since Boot: 6100 seconds Time Since Wake: 3100 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes:
KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000000000003c Exception Note:
EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

I installed the new Mac Sierra & installed the latest scala-ide (scala-SDK-4.4.1-vfinal-2.11-macosx.cocoa.x86_64.zip) but its showing above error on opening the application.

Answer 1

I also faced the same issue in sierra. There seems to be some issue with unzipping in sierra. Both double click as well as unzip command. I ended up using windows (i had windows VM in VMFusion) and used 7zip to uncompress the zip. After that, it open properly in Mac.

Answer 2

I have a workaround if you find interesting:

brew install Caskroom/cask/scala-ide

It worked for me and installed the version 4.4.1 on macOS Sierra 10.12.1.

Note: You will need to have brew installed so for instructions on that check this url: http://brew.sh .

Answer 3

I didn't dig deep into this, but it looks like it may be an error of the Mac OS X utility that automatically compresses files. I have downloaded the zip, uncompressed it via unzip, and it worked (launched via command line).

Answer 4

I was having same issue with Eclipse Kepler when double clicking to unzip a .tar.gz file. The above reference about using Terminal worked for me.

Instead of double clicking to unsip a .zip or a .tar.gz file, try using Terminal to cd to the same directory as the downloaded file, and run command

For a .zip file: unzip -a foo.zip

For a .tar.gz file: gunzip -c foo.tar.gz | tar xopf -

while replacing 'foo' with name of your downloaded file.

I was also required to download and install legacy Java 6 runtime.

Reference: http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/faq/extract

Answer 5

Scala IDE is not compatible with Java SE 9 and higher versions. You might need to downgrade or install Java SE 8 in order to fix the issue.

Lets go through each step how you can fix it.

Step 1. Check what version of Java you have installed on your machine.

Run this command in your terminal: /usr/libexec/java_home --verbose

As you can see I have three different versions of java running on my machine.

Step 2: Install Java SE 8 (jdk1.8) if you don't find it in your list. Refer this blog for java installation steps.

Step 3: Now open your .bashrc file (run command: vi ~/.bashrc) and copy-paste below line in your bashrc file.

export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)

Step 4: Save the file (:wq!) and reload your profile (source ~/.bashrc)

Step 5: Now you need to define eclipse.ini arguments in order to use Java 1.8 version. On a Mac OS X system, you can find eclipse.ini by right-clicking (or Ctrl+click) on the Scala IDE executable in Finder, choose Show Package Contents, and then locate eclipse.ini in the Eclipse folder under Contents.

The path is often /Applications/Scala IDE.app/Contents/Eclipse/eclipse.ini

Step 6: Open it with text editor and copy-paste below line in eclipse.ini file. Change the version (if needed) according to your java version. Mine is 1.8.0_171.

-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_171.jdk/Contents/Home/bin

Step 7: Save the file and exit.

Step 8: Run the Scala IDE application now and it should run:

Reference: Website

Answer 6

Facing the same error using macOS 10.12.5. Tried using different unzipped and home-brew. Finally made it: Installed it using brew cask install scala-ide. Changed the default workspace to "workspace_new" when getting asked at the first start.