Pydev dialog crashes Eclipse Juno IDE

Question

I just installed Pydev 3.7.1 into Eclipse Juno. I created a sample project and added a new file. When I try to edit the file to add source code, I immediately get the following dialog...

After closing the dialog, Eclipse shuts down and I get the following from Eclipse...

I've tried clicking on the buttons in the dialog, but, nothing seems to resolve the problem. I have Java 7 installed as Pydev requires, so, I'm not sure I'm missing anything. Can anyone tell me what's going on here?

Answer 1

A workaround for this issue is adding:

-Dpydev.funding.hide=1

to the vmargs in eclipse.ini (so that it doesn't create that dialog)

Note that in theory this problem shouldn't happen... what seems to be the issue is that somehow creating/closing a browser in SWT crashes Eclipse (which is really unexpected).

The code may be seen at: https://github.com/fabioz/Pydev/blob/development/plugins/org.python.pydev/src/org/python/pydev/editor/PydevShowBrowserMessage.java -- so, if someone with the problem could try to pinpoint if there's a workaround for it getting the Eclipse SDK/PyDev sources: http://pydev.org/developers.html and making a debug session, it'd be really nice :)

Answer 2

I had the same problem using Eclipe 64-bit on Ubuntu 14.04. Opening a .py file in Eclipse with PyDev installed opened a pop-up window for half a second and then Eclipse crashed without any warning output.

Adding "-Dpydev.funding.hide=1" at the end of the eclipse.ini file solved the problem...