| Re: "Fatal error: IDL has encountered a fatal error and will now exit." [message #72201 is a reply to message #71919] |
Mon, 16 August 2010 01:20  |
vittorio brando
Messages: 2
Registered: July 2010
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On Jul 30, 1:29 am, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 29, 9:05 am, vittorio brando <vittorio.bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> i'm running IDL 7.1 on openSUSE11.2 and today i'm getting the splash
>> "Fatal error: IDL has encountered a fatal error and will now exit." as
>> soon as i launch eclipse (i.e. the workbench).
>> Is there anyway to reset some settings or i need to re-install
>> something?
>> if so what ? glibc, java, eclipse or idl ?
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> I had similar problems with Eclipse (not the one that comes with IDL).
> I chose to just make a new workspace, instead of figuring out how to
> fix the broken one. If you get the workspace selection dialog when
> starting IDL, you can give it a new one. Or, if it is set to use a
> default workspace, you can rename the old one (defaults to
> IDLWorkspace71 on your home directory), so that a new one will be
> created when starting the Workbench. Do not just erase the old
> workspace directory, as that might not be the problem, and,
> particularly, it may contain files you need.
i found on the Eclipse website that it was a known instability
with the glibc [e.g. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320487]
They suggested to set the environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_=0
i did so and it works!
thanks,
ciao
v
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