Eclipse Crashes with Linux Kernel 4.4.0-81-generic

I'm running the Gnome version of Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 32 bit. I am also running Eclipse 3.8.1 with the PyDev plugin.

Recently my software updates updated me to Linux kernel 4.4.0-81-generic and now Eclipse crashes with a segmentation fault and core dump.

I tried a lot of things, but finally rebooted with the 4.4.0-79-generic kernel and it runs fine now.

Is there a known problem here and if so, a plan to fix it?

Update: I found this link:

My German is not the greatest, but it seems this person is having the exact same problem.

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4 Answers

This appears to have been acknowledged as a kernel bug

There is a workaround by increasing the JVM max stack size using -Xss1280k when starting Java. This can also be accomplished for processes where you don't have access to the command line arguments for Java by setting an environment variable export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Xss1280k (just remember to restart the process after setting the variable).

Update: Fixed in the latest kernel

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I am the original author of the posting on Ubuntu-users german forum. You are absolutely right that I am having the exact same issue as you do.

As a workaround I did a rollback to the 4.4.0-79 kernel on my colleagues laptop and all seems fine so I am pretty sure now it is the linux-kernel issue.

I initially tried to create a bugreport on launchpad, but sadly it would bail out with some strange error-code upon myself trying to login.

What surprises me the most is that there were hardly any resources out there(google search almost yields nothing) regarding the 4.4.0-81-kernel and eclipse issue when it happened. Were we three the only JAVA developers out there using Ubuntu 16.04 with eclipse doing their suggested ubuntu linux-kernel updates on a regular basis?

Well back to the issue itself, a kernel update just popped up some minutes ago. I went and installed it. Result was just as I expected: updated 4.4.0-81-generic from today and eclipse is still crashing, so much for that. I have also tried Raven's suggested fix increasing the stack size using

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Xss1280k

and it seems to work fine with my eclipse mars as well as neon from eclipse.org.

Luckily I just happen to have to do some other stuff right now and do not need my eclipse installation for now. If I did, I would also roll back to the previous kernel 4.4.0-79 as I do not like tinkering with the system stack size, even if it seems safe here.

So my suggestion for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS users is: Rollback to 4.4.0-79 and wait for a working kernel as the patches already went upsteram and there seems to be a working kernel, as written in the last posting on: .

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Even I was facing the same issue. My eclipse was not starting just after restarting my PC.

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Xss1280k

Doing the above has helped to start the eclipse.

2017-06-19 11:54:34 install libxkbcommon-x11-0:i386 <none> 0.4.1-0ubuntu1
2017-06-19 11:54:59 install linux-image-3.13.0-119-generic:i386 <none> 3.13.0-119.166
2017-06-19 11:58:12 install linux-image-extra-3.13.0-119-generic:i386 <none> 3.13.0-119.166
2017-06-19 11:58:19 install linux-headers-3.13.0-119:all <none> 3.13.0-119.166
2017-06-19 11:58:24 install linux-headers-3.13.0-119-generic:i386 <none> 3.13.0-119.166
2017-06-19 11:58:51 install python-urllib3:all <none> 1.7.1-1ubuntu4
2017-06-19 11:58:52 install python-requests:all <none> 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.3
2017-06-19 11:59:09 install libandroid-properties1:i386 <none> 0.1.0+git20131207+e452e83-0ubuntu12
2017-06-19 11:59:09 install liboxideqtquick0:i386 <none> 1.21.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
2017-06-19 19:15:49 install p7zip-full:i386 <none> 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u2build0.14.04.1
2017-06-21 10:38:35 install linux-image-3.13.0-121-generic:i386 <none> 3.13.0-121.170
2017-06-21 10:38:39 install linux-image-extra-3.13.0-121-generic:i386 <none> 3.13.0-121.170
2017-06-21 10:38:46 install linux-headers-3.13.0-121:all <none> 3.13.0-121.170
2017-06-21 10:38:50 install linux-headers-3.13.0-121-generic:i386 <none> 3.13.0-121.170
2017-06-21 10:38:24 upgrade libc6-dev:i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.11 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2017-06-21 10:38:25 upgrade libc-dev-bin:i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.11 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2017-06-21 10:38:26 upgrade linux-libc-dev:i386 3.13.0-119.166 3.13.0-121.170
2017-06-21 10:38:26 upgrade libc6-dbg:i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.11 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2017-06-21 10:38:27 upgrade libc-bin:i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.11 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2017-06-21 10:38:31 upgrade libc6:i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.11 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2017-06-21 10:38:38 upgrade multiarch-support:i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.11 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2017-06-21 10:38:44 upgrade linux-generic:i386 3.13.0.119.129 3.13.0.121.131
2017-06-21 10:38:45 upgrade linux-image-generic:i386 3.13.0.119.129 3.13.0.121.131
2017-06-21 10:38:53 upgrade linux-headers-generic:i386 3.13.0.119.129 3.13.0.121.131

Above are the list of packages which got auto updated in my machine recently. Can anyone please let me know which particular package I have to scrap or downgrade..??

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This seems to be fixed in linux kernel 4.4.0-87-generic. I don't know if it was fixed in an earlier version, but it definitely works in this one.

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