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
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