Comment 12 for bug 68714

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TJ (tj) wrote :

I am experiencing the same issue with Edgy, kernel 2.6.17.14, Eclipse 3.2 and Sun Java JRE 1.5.0_08-b03.

As other reporters have said, this is caused by a problem with Accessibility support provided by at-spi.

Disabling

System > Preferences > Assistive Technology Preferences > "Enable assistive technologies"

works around the issue, but is obviously not a fix.

It appears there is a problem with the Java Access Bridge. I've posted a bug against the Gnome at-spi package and referred it to the this bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405368