Michael,

On Thursday 24 February 2005 01:16, Lord Jester wrote:

Is anybody else getting random crashes from Java programs? Eclipse for example crashes randomly all the time, and so does Azureus. No other programs do this, just Java based programs.

Strange thing though, they work fine under Gnome, but not KDE.

Any ideas?

I use jEdit, NetBeans and Java software of my own authorship routinely and extensively and I have found the Java runtime to be very stable and reliable. This is both before and after the recent security patch release of 1.4.2_06 (RPM package version java2-1.4.2-129.10).

You should look for evidence of a JVM crash in your ~/.xsession-errors file. That may offer some significant clues about what's happening. It's possible that errors may be logged in other files, as well. I don't use Eclipse, so I don't know if it redirects its standard error, e.g..

Michael

Randall Schulz