Eclipse startup fails in Fedora 12 with the message "JVM terminated. Exit code = -1"

Question

I am using Fedora12.

I have downloaded eclipse-cpp-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.

I am using Java version "1.6.0_18"

When I start eclipse, I get the following error dialog. What might be the issue?

Answer 1

I used to see that message when there was any error in eclipse.ini.
Try using my eclipse.ini to see if that solve the problem.
In particular, check there is no extra space at the end of each line.

That being said, the error message:

/usr/java/jre1.6.0_18/bin/../lib/i386/client/libjvm.so:  
  cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

is probably the real issue here.

Check if this is not related to the fact that most applications are not permitted to run with an executable stack.
See this article.

This forum suggests:

#setsebool -P allow_execstack 1

After reading SELinux Reveals Bugs in other code and SELinux Reveals Bugs in other code., I then tried

#execstack -c /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so

and this seemed to work also.

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Update June 2012: la89ondevg mentions in the comments:

In case command above didn't made the changes so one can select to make changes by going to System->Administration->SElinux Management after that select "Boolean" and set Boolean appropriately or simply search "allow_execstack" in filter and set it.
This will work same as above command.