Aptana crashes on ubuntu linux

Question

Every time i open Aptana it crashes.

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A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f14294b2c91, pid=5722, tid=139727004391168

 JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_45-b18) (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
 Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.45-b08 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
 Problematic frame:
 C  [libsoup-2.4.so.1+0x6ac91]  soup_session_feature_detach+0x11

 Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again

If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code. See problematic frame for where to report the bug.

Answer 1

It happend to me after upgrade to ubuntu 14.04 using Oracle Java 7. In the Aptana folder there are hs_err_pid...log. Opening the last one of them I saw:

# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again

so, I did open a terminal and I worte directly:

ulimit -c unlimited

and it worked for me. No problems until now.

Answer 2

It looks like you have a broken installation of Aptana, either caused by a bug in the Eclipse / Aptana codebase, or some incompatibility with your Ubuntu installation.

• If this was working before, try and find out what has changed recently. (Did you install new plugins? Did you apply some Ubuntu patches? Did you update versions of your OS or Aptana?)

• If it never worked, check to see if your combination of Aptana and the OS are supported.

Either way, the most likely solution is going to be to reinstall, upgrade or downgrade something to get rid of the apparent incompatibility.

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For the record, I suspect that this is related to the following Eclipse bug:

• crash: fatal error in soup_session_feature_detach with WebKitGTK+ >= 1.11.91
• libsoup2.4-1: Problem with Eclipse and java

Answer 3

Quoting from http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/fix-aptana-studio-3-crashing-in-ubuntu.html :

In the folder where you've extracted / install Aptana Studio 3, you should have a file called "AptanaStudio3.ini" - open this file with a text editor and at the end of the file , add this line:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla

Answer 4

From what i gathered around the internet, it seems to be a problem with webkit, what did the trick for me was removing the library:

apt-get purge libwebkitgtk-1.0-common

The problem is, other programs like the gimp use that library...

Or you may turn off the contextual help like guyfromfl suggested here