GWT Designer for Eclipse Juno on Ubuntu 12.X

Today I’ve tried to install Google Eclipse Plugin to draw some forms for my GWT-based app and caught the exception:

GWT http-server started at 127.0.0.1:45658
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fb2229d45a0, pid=8150, tid=140404439688960
#
# JRE version: 6.0_37-b06
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.12-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0+0x14245a0]  void WTF::freeOwnedGPtr<_GdkEvent>(_GdkEvent*)+0x15df0
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/ipcreeper/hs_err_pid8150.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

Searching for at least an hour I’ve finally found the solution:

 

Step 1:

Download and install libhunspell package (xulrunner has a dependency on it):

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/libhunspell-1.2-0/download

sudo dpkg -i libhunspell-1.2-0_1.2.14-4_amd64.deb

Step 2:

Download and install xulrunner package:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/xulrunner-1.9.2/download

sudo dpkg -i xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.28+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1_amd64.deb

Be aware that both libhunspell and xulrunner should be either i386 or amd64 version.

Step 3:

Open eclipse.ini and add path to installed xulrunner:
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.28

Step 4:

If editor still not running, try to set the environment variable GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS to false before starting Eclipse. Do it with following command:

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=false

9 thoughts to “GWT Designer for Eclipse Juno on Ubuntu 12.X”

  1. Thanks! Worked like a charm! 🙂 Can you explain why this helped and what is the real issue please? Because as I understand it’s still a workaround.

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