The gtk+ team fixed the problem in theire CVS already: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk+/trunk/gtk/gtktooltips.c?r1=18587&r2=18864 I think patch is suitable for x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.0-r1 thank you, jan Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: In Eclipse / JBuilder 2007 1. Move around the toolbar bringing up tooltips 2. Tooltips appear fine 3. After a short period, the JVM crashes Stack trace: Stack: [0xbf8f5000,0xbfaf5000), sp=0xbfaf0880, free space=2030k Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code) C [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x2593dc] gtk_tooltips_set_tip+0x1dc C [libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so+0x38abf] Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS__1gtk_1tooltips_1set_1tip+0x74 j org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_tooltips_set_tip(II[B[B)V+0 j org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_tooltips_set_tip(II[B[B)V+11 j org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.setToolTipText(ILjava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V+142 [...] Actual Results: Java VM crashes dumping the following hs_err_pid*.log # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x6aab88d3, pid=7680, tid=3084941520 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_12-b04 mixed mode) # Problematic frame: # C [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x2218d3] gtk_tooltips_set_tip+0x1c3 # --------------- T H R E A D --------------- Current thread (0x0805cc28): JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_native, id=7680] siginfo:si_signo=11, si_errno=0, si_code=1, si_addr=0x00000008 Registers: EAX=0x00000180, EBX=0x6abfcff4, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x081772d8 ESP=0xbff4f5d8, EBP=0xbff4f610, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x08d73ee0 EIP=0x6aab88d3, CR2=0x00000008, EFLAGS=0x00010246 Top of Stack: (sp=0xbff4f5d8) 0xbff4f5d8: 08d73ee0 71203868 093d1530 093d1530 0xbff4f5e8: 0805cc28 6abfcff4 081772d8 00000000 0xbff4f5f8: 093d1530 081772d8 080e0370 6ac6b36c 0xbff4f608: 0805cce8 00000000 bff4f640 6ac58abf 0xbff4f618: 081772d8 08d73ee0 093d1530 00000000 0xbff4f628: bff4f648 6ac58a29 093d1530 0805cc28 0xbff4f638: 00000000 71203868 bff4f668 b2b9f7ac 0xbff4f648: 0805cce8 bff4f664 081772d8 08d73ee0 Instructions: (pc=0x6aab88d3) 0x6aab88c3: 25 80 01 00 00 3d 80 01 00 00 0f 85 d5 fe ff ff 0x6aab88d3: 8b 46 08 89 04 24 e8 42 99 e2 ff 8b 46 0c 89 04 Stack: [0xbfd54000,0xbff54000), sp=0xbff4f5d8, free space=2029k Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code) C [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x2218d3] gtk_tooltips_set_tip+0x1c3 C [libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so+0x38abf] Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS__1gtk_1tooltips_1set_1tip+0x74 J org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_tooltips_set_tip(II[B[B)V J org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_tooltips_set_tip(II[B[B)V j org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.setToolTipText(ILjava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V+142 j org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.setToolTipText(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Shell;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V+7 j org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.setToolTipText(Ljava/lang/String;)V+14 j org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder._setToolTipText(II)V+30 j org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.onMouse(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Event;)V+771 j org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder$1.handleEvent(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Event;)V+248 J org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Event;)V J org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents()Z J org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch()Z J org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Lorg/eclipse/jface/window/Window$IExceptionHandler;Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;)V v ~OSRAdapter j org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI()I+225 j org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;Lorg/eclipse/ui/application/WorkbenchAdvisor;)I+11 [ ... cut ... ] b7f76000-b7f90000 r-xp 00000000 03:04 1848722 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so b7f90000-b7f92000 rwxp 00019000 03:04 1848722 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so bfd54000-bfd57000 ---p bfd54000 00:00 0 bfd57000-bff54000 rwxp bfd57000 00:00 0 [stack] VM Arguments: jvm_args: -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=100M java_command: /usr/lib/eclipse-3.2/startup.jar -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -launcher /usr/lib/eclipse-3.2/eclipse -name Eclipse -showsplash 600 -exitdata 68002 -vm /usr/bin/java -vmargs -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=100M -jar /usr/lib/eclipse-3.2/startup.jar Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD Environment Variables: JAVA_HOME=/home/jan/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm CLASSPATH=/opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06/jre/lib/rt.jar:. PATH=/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.2.0:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.12/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.12/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.12/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/lib/wine/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.12/jre/lib/i386/client:/opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.12/jre/lib/i386:/opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.12/jre/../lib/i386:/usr/lib/gecko-sdk/lib/ SHELL=/bin/bash DISPLAY=:0.0 Signal Handlers: SIGSEGV: [libjvm.so+0x32b1b0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGBUS: [libjvm.so+0x32b1b0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGFPE: [libjvm.so+0x28eb70], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGPIPE: SIG_IGN, sa_mask[0]=0x00001000, sa_flags=0x10000000 SIGILL: [libjvm.so+0x28eb70], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGUSR1: SIG_DFL, sa_mask[0]=0x00000000, sa_flags=0x00000000 SIGUSR2: [libjvm.so+0x290fc0], sa_mask[0]=0x00000000, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGHUP: [libjvm.so+0x2909f0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGINT: [libjvm.so+0x2909f0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGQUIT: [libjvm.so+0x2909f0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGTERM: [libjvm.so+0x2909f0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 --------------- S Y S T E M --------------- OS:Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 uname:Linux 2.6.22-gentoo-r7 #1 PREEMPT Mon Sep 24 11:32:18 CEST 2007 i686 libc:glibc 2.6.1 NPTL 2.6.1 rlimit: STACK 8192k, CORE 0k, NPROC 12283, NOFILE 1024, AS infinity load average:0,07 0,28 0,36 CPU:total 1 (cores per cpu 1, threads per core 1) family 6 model 9 stepping 5, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2 Memory: 4k page, physical 1555548k(804028k free), swap 506036k(506036k free) vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_12-b04) for linux-x86, built on May 2 2007 03:26:22 by java_re with gcc 3.2.1-7a (J2SE release) Expected Results: Eclipse should not crash when hovering over tabs and other tooltip-containing controlls. dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r2 x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.0
Been already fixed, see the ChangeLog.
Compatibility restored inside gtk+, so there is no regression with newer gtk+ and nothing to track, removing tracker from block list
