Question

Eclipese crashes on one (and only it appears) intellensense.

typing “Display.getW” (towards the Display.GetWidth() function) as I type W eclipse reproduceably crashes. Trying random other functions and classes yield no problems.

Any ideas as to what this might be?

Eclipse Info: Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.

Build id: 20100218-1602 
Eclipse Galileo

Edit: Using windowsXP

Answer 1

The only bugs related to a crash on auto-completion all mention Linux platform and an issue with xulrunner library.

See for instance bug 236724:

You don’t need to download an older version of xulrunner since the problem is merely that the 64bit version of the library is being loaded rather than the 32bit library.
To rectify this, just add the following line to your eclipse.ini file which points to the 32bit version of the xulrunner library:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=<path_to_32bit_xulrunner_lib>

On RHEL5 for example, the path would be /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.

So you would in this case either need an older version of xulrunner, or fixing its path.

On Windows, on the other hand, that may be a good opportunity to fill in a new bug report.

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Update February 2012, Raedwald mentions in the comments:

• The relevant Eclipse FAQ “Can I specify which XULRunner installation gets used?”
• This can also fix the problem if you provide as the XULRunnerPath a path-name that does not point to an xulrunner library directory.
  What happens is that Eclipse instead falls back to using an internal renderer.
  I believe this is the only solution if your O/S (such as RedHat 5.8) upgrades you to a FireFox version that uses xulrunner-2 but does not provide webkitgtk.