Eclipse crashes after upgrade of libwebkit2gtk to 2.44.x

[4javier]

Version 2.44.0 of the lib gets shipped with the upgrade to Gnome 46 (more or less, maybe not a direct dependency).
This already happened on Arch, so it will be soon widespread on other distros.
Eclipse (and as a consequence STS) hangs then dump often, specifically when a popup is triggered by hovering on some elements and alike.
This is the typical hs_err_pidXXX.log confirming the issue after crash

---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------

Current thread (0x000070cae0027180):  JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_native, id=2169, stack(0x000070cae7614000,0x000070cae7714000)]

Stack: [0x000070cae7614000,0x000070cae7714000],  sp=0x000070cae7710ef0,  free space=1011k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C  [libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0+0x10c690b]

The issue seems to be related to hardware acceleration in Wayland, so a suggested workaround is to use X server emulation, launching STS with

GDK_BACKEND=x11 STS

I can confirm it works, and that issue is still present in libwebkit2gtk 2.44.1 released a couple days ago.
The problem is tracked down upstream by Eclipse devs, but unfortunately it looks like a really old ghost-bug not even Gnome devs have been able to solve in years, so they decided to follow the same path of some official Gnome packages disabling hardware acceleration.
This is the fix pushed upstream
eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt@d76f147

I'd suggest to realease a STS version based on a build including the fix.
Maybe latest milestone one?
https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/releases/tag/S4_32_0_M1

Cheers

[martinlippert]

Thanks @4javier for the details summarized here, much appreciated. The fix will be included in the 4.23.0 release, which will be based on the Eclipse 2024-06 release (the Eclipse release that will include this fix in SWT).

In the meantime, we also already run snapshot builds for the Eclipse 2024-06 milestone builds, so you can get an early snapshot build of Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.22.1 on Eclipse 2024-06 milestones from https://cdn.spring.io/spring-tools/snapshot/STS4/nightly-distributions.html. The latest snapshot build for Eclipse 2024-06 should include the fix already. Would you be interested to give that a try?

[4javier]

Unfortunately, nightly build kills the whole gnome-shell in the same situation
Version: 4.22.1.202404142003-SNAPSHOT

Process 6865 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                        
Stack trace of thread 6865:
#0  0x000079c5ee169d51 g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x38d51)
#1  0x000079c5ee14eb07 g_object_ref (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x1db07)
#2  0x000079c5ed576ec7 n/a (libmutter-14.so.0 + 0x176ec7)
#3  0x000079c5ed56b84f n/a (libmutter-14.so.0 + 0x16b84f)
#4  0x000079c5ed695596 n/a (libffi.so.8 + 0x7596)
#5  0x000079c5ed69200e n/a (libffi.so.8 + 0x400e)
#6  0x000079c5ed694bd3 ffi_call (libffi.so.8 + 0x6bd3)
#7  0x000079c5ec7f9ada n/a (libwayland-server.so.0 + 0x8ada)
#8  0x000079c5ec7fe180 n/a (libwayland-server.so.0 + 0xd180)
#9  0x000079c5ec7fcae2 wl_event_loop_dispatch (libwayland-server.so.0 + 0xbae2)
#10 0x000079c5ed54f00d n/a (libmutter-14.so.0 + 0x14f00d)
#11 0x000079c5edb40199 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5a199)
#12 0x000079c5edb9f3bf n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb93bf)
#13 0x000079c5edb40dc7 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5adc7)
#14 0x000079c5ed4ca00b meta_context_run_main_loop (libmutter-14.so.0 + 0xca00b)
#15 0x000079c5ed695596 n/a (libffi.so.8 + 0x7596)
#16 0x000079c5ed69200e n/a (libffi.so.8 + 0x400e)
#17 0x000079c5ed694bd3 ffi_call (libffi.so.8 + 0x6bd3)
#18 0x000079c5ed9c9fe1 n/a (libgjs.so.0 + 0x4bfe1)
#19 0x000079c5ed9ca688 n/a (libgjs.so.0 + 0x4c688)
#20 0x000079c5ebf652da n/a (libmozjs-115.so + 0x15652da)
#21 0x000079c5ebbd8b01 n/a (libmozjs-115.so + 0x11d8b01)
#22 0x000079c5ebbd3ec5 n/a (libmozjs-115.so + 0x11d3ec5)
#23 0x000079c5ec0ba1b1 _ZN2JS4CallEP9JSContextNS_6HandleINS_5ValueEEES4_RKNS_16HandleValueArrayENS_13MutableHandleIS3_EE (libmozjs-115.so + 0x16ba1b1)
#24 0x000079c5eda00f02 n/a (libgjs.so.0 + 0x82f02)
#25 0x000079c5eda0917f gjs_context_eval_module (libgjs.so.0 + 0x8b17f)
#26 0x000079c5eda09481 gjs_context_eval_module_file (libgjs.so.0 + 0x8b481)
#27 0x000064569d86e57f n/a (gnome-shell + 0x257f)
#28 0x000079c5ed243cd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x25cd0)
#29 0x000079c5ed243d8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x25d8a)
#30 0x000064569d86e9e5 n/a (gnome-shell + 0x29e5)

[martinlippert]

Does Eclipse 2024-06 M1 itself also crashes?
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.32M1-202404061800/

[4javier]

Yes, same issue.
I'll report it that in upstream tracker.

[tntra-dhananjay]

Facing same issue with

Spring Tool Suite 4

Version: 4.21.0.RELEASE
Build Id: 202312011804
Revision: 37b0678

[martinlippert]

@tntra-dhananjay The mentioned workaround works for you as well?

[goarvic]

Facing same issue.
The workaround suggested by @4javier launching with GDK_BACKEND=x11 STS is working

[tntra-dhananjay]

@tntra-dhananjay The mentioned workaround works for you as well?

@martinlippert - following solution worked for me

Added WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in Exec
Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 ./sts-4.22.0/SpringToolSuite4 --limit-modules %f

[nated099]

Added WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in Exec
Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 ./sts-4.22.0/SpringToolSuite4 --limit-modules %f

Thank you!