Paul, maybe you are right about root behavior, but I'm not an expert =)
Darragh, I don't have this directory: /usr/lib64/eclipse/As you suggested , another test, using a different workspace, got the same error:
./eclipse -data /home/fb/eclipse_test_workspace -vm /usr/lib64/icedtea6/bin/java -vmargs -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M
-XX:PermSize=256M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
2011-01-31 09:16:18.03:INFO::Logging to StdErrLog::DEBUG=false via org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog
*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib64/icedtea6/bin/java: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000002444570 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x783c6)[0x7f40436af3c6]
/usr/lib64/icedtea6/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so(+0x43cba8)[0x7f4042f35ba8]
/home/fb/eclipseWTP3.2.1/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/151/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3650.so(Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS__1g_1data_1input_1stream_1read_1line+0xe7)[0x7f403446fa9e]
[0x7f403e5f0ca8]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00409000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 13510617 /usr/lib64/icedtea6/bin/java
00608000-00609000 r--p 00008000 08:02 13510617 /usr/lib64/icedtea6/bin/java
00609000-0060a000 rw-p 00009000 08:02 13510617 /usr/lib64/icedtea6/bin/java
01e68000-06647000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
b0000000-100000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f4020b9b000-7f4020ba8000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 12125842 /lib64/libudev.so.0.9.3
7f4020ba8000-7f4020da7000 ---p 0000d000 08:02 12125842 /lib64/libudev.so.0.9.3
7f4020da7000-7f4020da8000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 12125842 /lib64/libudev.so.0.9.3
7f4020da8000-7f4020da9000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 12125842 /lib64/libudev.so.0.9.3
7f4020da9000-7f4020dd3000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 13237870 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
7f4020dd3000-7f4020fd2000 ---p 0002a000 08:02 13237870 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
7f4020fd2000-7f4020fd3000 r--p 00029000 08:02 13237870 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
7f4020fd3000-7f4020fd4000 rw-p 0002a000 08:02 13237870 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
7f4020fd4000-7f4020fd5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f4020fd5000-7f4020fed000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 13238043 /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
7f4020fed000-7f40211ec000 ---p 00018000 08:02 13238043 /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
7f40211ec000-7f40211ed000 r--p 00017000 08:02 13238043 /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
7f40211ed000-7f40211ee000 rw-p 00018000 08:02 13238043 /usr/lib64/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0
7f40211ee000-7f4021202000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 13238065 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
7f4021202000-7f4021401000 ---p 00014000 08:02 13238065 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
7f4021401000-7f4021402000 r--p 00013000 08:02 13238065 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
7f4021402000-7f4021403000 rw-p 00014000 08:02 13238065 /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
7f4021403000-7f4021406000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 11801789 /usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so.0.8.0
7f4021406000-7f4021605000 ---p 00003000 08:02 11801789 /usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so.0.8.0
7f4021605000-7f4021606000 r--p 00002000 08:02 11801789 /usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so.0.8.0
7f4021606000-7f4021607000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 11801789 /usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so.0.8.0
7f4021607000-7f402167c000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 13245772 /usr/lib64/libgcrypt.so.11.6.0
[]'s
Fernando Boaglio