Knime 3.0.0 crashes after splash screen

After the splashscreen of Knime 3.0.0 with X-Forwarding on oppenSuse 11.4 (x86_64), it crashes:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fc8bd616821, pid=9880, tid=140500859475712
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_60-b27) (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.60-b23 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x51821]  gdk_display_open+0x41

(...)


Stack: [0x00007fc8e7c1d000,0x00007fc8e7d1e000],  sp=0x00007fc8e7d1b650,  free space=1017k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C  [libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x51821]  gdk_display_open+0x41

Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_init_check([J[J)Z+0
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_init_check([J[J)Z+9
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Lorg/eclipse/swt/graphics/DeviceData;)V+44
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Lorg/eclipse/swt/graphics/DeviceData;)V+18

 

The same connection and settings run Knime 2.12 just fine.

Thanks to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24872995/why-does-my-eclipse-luna-4-4-crash-on-debian-wheezy-7-4-with-oracle-jdk8-64bit

setting SWT_GTK3=0 helped.

Hi Lorenz,

thank you for reporting this. I had the same problem using our sdk under linux.

Best, Iris