Quite often eclipse on my desktop is throwing a null pointer exception about the clipboard. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press ctrl-c or ctrl-x 2. Enjoy the error dialog. eclipse.buildId=M20060921-0945 java.version=1.5.0_13 java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 Error Thu Dec 27 16:13:30 PST 2007 "Copy" did not complete normally. Please see the log for more information. eclipse.buildId=M20060921-0945 java.version=1.5.0_13 java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 Error Thu Dec 27 16:11:45 PST 2007 java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.ClipboardProxy.getFunc(ClipboardProxy.java:115) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_clipboard_wait_for_contents(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_clipboard_wait_for_contents(OS.java:3833) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard.gtk_clipboard_wait_for_contents(Clipboard.java:613) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard.getContents(Clipboard.java:289) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard.getContents(Clipboard.java:236) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.ClipboardOperationAction.doCutCopyWithImportsOperation(ClipboardOperationAction.java:336) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.ClipboardOperationAction.internalDoOperation(ClipboardOperationAction.java:279) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.ClipboardOperationAction$1.run(ClipboardOperationAction.java:248) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:67) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.ClipboardOperationAction.run(ClipboardOperationAction.java:246) at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:499) at org.eclipse.ui.commands.ActionHandler.execute(ActionHandler.java:185) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.LegacyHandlerWrapper.execute(LegacyHandlerWrapper.java:109) at org.eclipse.core.commands.Command.executeWithChecks(Command.java:461) at org.eclipse.core.commands.ParameterizedCommand.executeWithChecks(ParameterizedCommand.java:424) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.HandlerService.executeCommand(HandlerService.java:160) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.WorkbenchKeyboard.executeCommand(WorkbenchKeyboard.java:466) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.WorkbenchKeyboard.press(WorkbenchKeyboard.java:799) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.WorkbenchKeyboard.processKeyEvent(WorkbenchKeyboard.java:846) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.WorkbenchKeyboard.filterKeySequenceBindings(WorkbenchKeyboard.java:564) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.WorkbenchKeyboard.access$3(WorkbenchKeyboard.java:506) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.WorkbenchKeyboard$KeyDownFilter.handleEvent(WorkbenchKeyboard.java:122) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.filterEvent(Display.java:1331) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1084) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1109) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1094) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendKeyEvent(Widget.java:1121) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.gtk_key_press_event(Widget.java:655) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.gtk_key_press_event(Control.java:2082) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.gtk_key_press_event(Composite.java:637) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.windowProc(Widget.java:1434) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:3786) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_main_do_event(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_main_do_event(OS.java:5273) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.eventProc(Display.java:1128) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._g_main_context_iteration(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.g_main_context_iteration(OS.java:1428) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2828) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1914) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1878) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:419) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:95) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:78) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:92) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:68) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:400) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:177) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:336) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:280) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:952)
emerge --info please...
(In reply to comment #1) > emerge --info please... > ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:16:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" LINGUAS="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdinstall cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam firefox flac flash fortran ftp gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde mad midi mikmod mmx2 mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl openmp osc oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb videos vorbis xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
same here with eclipse running on dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.04 it happens since last week, maybe upgrading from gtk+-2.12.5-r1 to 2.12.8 Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-tuxonice-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-tuxonice-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:03 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/initng/daemon /etc/initng/net /etc/initng/system /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse2" DISTDIR="/data/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/data/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/fluidportage /usr/portage/local/layman/ecatmur /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/portage/local/layman/java-gcj-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/initng /usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/liquidx /usr/portage/local/layman/r300-driver /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/synce /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/toolchain /usr/portage/local/layman/paludis-extras /usr/portage/local/layman/bangert /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano /usr/portage/local/layman/eclipse /usr/portage/local/layman/hanno-xgl /usr/portage/local/layman/n4g /usr/portage/local/layman/n4g-experimental /usr/portage/local/layman/drizzt-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/einit /usr/portage/local/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/manual /usr/local/portage/backup" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X X509 a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi aiglx alsa apache2 apic arts audiofile avahi bash-completion beagle berkdb bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr cdw cjk clflush cli cmov cracklib crypt cups curl cx8 dbus de dga dhcp directfb divx4linux dmi doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss emf encode esd est evo exif exim fam fax fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran fpu fuse fxsr gdbm gif gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gsm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv idn ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 irda isdnlog jack java java5 javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdexdeltas kerberos keyring krb4 latex lcms ldap libcaca libnotify lirc lm_sensors mad madwifi mca mce midi mikmod mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg msr mtrr mudflap musepack nas nautilus ncurses net network networkmanager nfs nis nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl openmp pam pango pat pbe pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl pge png pnp postscript ppds pppd pse pthreads python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba scanner sdl sep session snmp socks5 sound speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk tm tm2 truetype tsc udev unicode urandom usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vme vorbis webdav wifi win32codecs wma wmf x86 xattr xcomposite xgl xine xml xorg xpm xprint xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 intel8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" EINIT_CORE="module-so module-logic-v3 bootstrap-configuration-xml-expat bootstrap-configuration-stree log linux-sysconf linux-mount linux-process" EINIT_MODULES="feedback-visual-textual feedback-aural fqdn external exec ipc module-exec module-daemon mount tty process parse-sh ipc-configuration shadow-exec module-transformations ipc-core-helpers scheduler compatibility-sysv-utmp compatibility-sysv-initctl linux-mount linux-process linux-sysconf feedback-visual-fbsplash network" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="dbus_event ctrlaltdel also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical cron daemon dev dllaunch envparser find fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit logfile netprobe ngc4 pause pidfile reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog unneeded provide daemon_clean debug_commands fmon lockfile netdev ngcs nge sysreq usplash service_file" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" LIRC_DEVICES="all" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati fglrx fbdev radeon r300 v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I uninstalled compiz-fusion and related dirtiness and the problem seems to have stopped. Not sure if its related at this point because i never started it but its worth noting.
Closing as 3.2 is not supported anymore.
