eclipse problem

[James Weatherall]

> Redhat bits are worse.  They are labeled as "beta".   Crash 
> occurred within seconds of starting eclipse/java session.   
> The frequency of my last 2 notes should give you some 
> indication of how bad the problem is.  If you google around, 
> you will find that me and my co-workers are not alone with 
> this.  Seems like eclipse and vnc just don't work together on Redhat. 
> 
> the most stable configuration I have found is 3.3.7 from the 
> realvnc website.  It still crashes but much less frequently. 

To clarify - you are saying that regardless of the version of VNC Server you
run, Eclipse crashes the actual X server, killing the X server process?

Are there any events in the log files for the crashed sessions?

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.