Package: java-gcj-compat Version: 1.0.51-1 The issue seems to rely in the gcj/gij packages. Since I updated to version 4.0.2-7 (and -7j1) of the gcj packages, Eclipse crashes every once in a while, usualy after about an hour of usage. I don't use Eclipse for building java-programs, so that's not the issue, I run Eclipse using the gcj/gij/jvm stuff. It's very hard to reconstruct the scenario, it just happens several times a day without me doing anything special, just writing code in the editor.
Eclipse gives this crash info: JVM terminated. Exit code=1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.0/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -Dosgi.locking=none -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -launcher /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse -name Eclipse -showsplash 600 -exitdata e8010 -install /usr/lib/eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -vmargs -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.0/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -Dosgi.locking=none -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar It had never happened before I updated the packages (I might've updated the java-gcj-compat as well, I update everything frequently) from the unstable tree. dpkg -l | grep -E "gcj|gij|java|jar" | awk '{print $1" "$2" "$3}' gives the following: ii eclipse-jdt-gcj 3.1.1-8 ii eclipse-pde-gcj 3.1.1-8 ii eclipse-platform-gcj 3.1.1-8 ii eclipse-rcp-gcj 3.1.1-8 ii fastjar 4.0.2-7 ii gcj 4.0.2-2 ii gcj-4.0 4.0.2-7j1 ii gcj-4.0-base 4.0.2-7j1 ii gcjwebplugin 0.3.2-1 ii gij 4.0.2-2 ii gij-4.0 4.0.2-7j1 ii gjdoc 0.7.7-1 ii java-common 0.23 ii java-gcj-compat 1.0.51-1 ii java-package 0.27 ii libbcel-java 5.1-6 ii libcommons-beanutils-java 1.7.0-3 ii libcommons-collections-java 2.1.1-5 ii libcommons-collections3-java 3.1a-2 ii libcommons-dbcp-java 1.2.1-4 ii libcommons-digester-java 1.7-2 ii libcommons-el-java 1.0-3 ii libcommons-fileupload-java 1.0-13 ii libcommons-launcher-java 1.1-3 ii libcommons-logging-java 1.0.4-4 ii libcommons-modeler-java 1.1-8 ii libcommons-pool-java 1.2-5 ii libgcj-common 4.0.2-7j1 ii libgcj-dev 4.0.2-2 ii libgcj6 4.0.2-7j1 ii libgcj6-awt 4.0.2-7j1 ii libgcj6-dev 4.0.2-7j1 ii libgcj6-jar 4.0.2-7j1 ii libgnucrypto-java 2.0.1-4 ii libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.2-2 ii libjaxp1.2-java 1.2.01-1 ii libjessie-java 1.0.1-2 ii libjline-java 0.9.1-2 ii libjsch-java 0.1.19-3 ii liblog4j1.2-java 1.2.12-1 ii liblucene-java 1.4.3-9 ii liblucene-java-doc 1.4.3-9 ii libmx4j-java 2.1.1-2 ii libregexp-java 1.4-2 ii libservlet2.3-java 4.0-8 ii libservlet2.4-java 5.0.30-3 ii libswt3.1-gtk-java 3.1.1-8 ii libswt3.1-gtk-jni 3.1.1-8 ii libtomcat5-java 5.0.30-9 ii libxalan2-java 2.6.0-6 ii libxerces2-java 2.6.2-3 ii libxt-java 0.20050823-1 ii openoffice.org-java-common 2.0.1-2 /Gustaf