Since the IE11 security update kb2977629 got installed, eclipse 3.7, 3.8 and 4.2 are now crashing with the java hs_err_pidxxx.log pointing to some updated IE dlls. When uninstalling kb2977629 the issues goes away.
This happens for me on multiple windows 7 Pro 64 bit build machines. We test the compatibility of our plugins with
multiple eclipse versions, the issue only happens with 3.7, 3.8 and 4.2.2 (and not with the more current releases 4.3 or 4.4).
Eclipse uses the IE plugin to render some HTML pages, for example on the welcome screen which is shown initially. The crash does not happen every time, but actually quite often.Call stack from a hs_err_pidxxx.log
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [ieframe.dll+0x646a6]
C [jscript9.dll+0x1a0f3b]
C [jscript9.dll+0x2484b]
C [jscript9.dll+0x24963]
C [mshtml.dll+0x29f2e0]
C [USER32.dll+0x162fa]
C [USER32.dll+0x16d3a]
C [USER32.dll+0x177c4]
C [USER32.dll+0x1788a]
C [swt-win32-3740.dll+0x39da]
j org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessageW(Lorg/eclipse/swt/internal/win32/MSG;)I+0
j org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(Lorg/eclipse/swt/internal/win32/MSG;)I+7
j org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch()Z+64
j org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Lorg/eclipse/jface/window/Window$IExceptionHandler;Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;)V+9
I wonder if someone has more insight, or maybe some idea how to address it.
Daniel