Bug 290984 – Crash in Embedded WebKit on macOS 15.4 (ARM64) with Eclipse

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

Created attachment 474812 [details]
macos crash report

The regression makes eclipse quite unstable on macos 15.4.

System Info:

OS: macOS 15.4 (Sonoma)

Architecture: Apple Silicon (ARM64)

JVM: Eclipse OpenJ9 VM 21.0.6.0 (build openj9-0.49.0, JRE 21 Mac OS X aarch64-64-Bit 20250121_371 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)

Eclipse: 4.35.0 (Build ID: 4.35.0.20250306-0811)

SWT Library: libswt-pi-cocoa-4968r13.jnilib

System Integrity Protection: Enabled

Crash Summary:

The Eclipse application crashes with a SIGABRT due to EXC_BAD_ACCESS (null pointer dereference) in the main UI thread.

The crash originates in the WebKit engine via the SWT Cocoa integration, specifically in layout management:

WebCore::BackForwardCache::markPagesForContentsSizeChanged
WebCore::LocalFrameView::setContentsSize
...
WebHTMLView layoutToMinimumPageWidth
...
Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_cocoa_OS_objc_msgSendSuper
Steps to Reproduce:

Launch Eclipse 4.35.0 on macOS 15.4 using an ARM64 JDK.

Interact with the editor window (key, mouse)

Eclipse abruptly terminates with a crash report indicating SIGABRT and JVM abort. (about every 20 min)

Crash Report Snippet:

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6
...
libjvm.dylib           os::abort()
WebCore                markPagesForContentsSizeChanged
WebKitLegacy           -[WebHTMLView layoutToMinimumPageWidth:...]
libswt-pi-cocoa-4968r13 Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_cocoa_OS_objc_msgSendSuper

[Phil Beauvoir]

This is a duplicate of Bug #290985. As there's more info in that one suggest to close this one.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 290985 ***