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Comment 22 for bug 531719

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Tristan Tarrant (tristan-tarrant-gmail) wrote : Eclipse crashes on content assist

Binary package hint: xulrunner

The recent upgrade to libcairo2-1.8.10-2ubuntu1 exposes a bug in xulrunner 1.9.1 (the upstream bug is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635).
In the case of Eclipse, this causes a crash when the extra documentation popup disappears from the right of the content-assist popup menu (i.e. when an item is selected and the menu is no longer needed).
If I set the environment variable GRE_HOME to some nonsense path, Eclipse works fine (it uses a simpler rendering technique for the documentation window).
Installing xulrunner 1.9.2 (I used the mozilla-daily ppa) fixes the problem. Since several packages depend on xulrunner (yelp, couchdb-bin, eclipse-platform, miro, libgjs0, gnome-shell, etc) it would be advisable to upgrade xulrunner to prevent the bug from appearing in the LTS.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 4 05:26:48 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xulrunner (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: xulrunner
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64