[CALUG] Android SDK

[Bob Schmertz]

  How much memory and swap do you have?

What's the screen resolution?  Maybe there's a minimal real estate 
requirement for the SDK.

You probably know Eclipse is a very heavy app; I wouldn't think a EeePC 
would be up to the task.

-Bob

On 9/2/2010 12:12 PM, John Alan Hastings wrote:
> I am setting up an Android SDK and am running into some fragility.
>
> I have set up Android with eclipse on one machine which is running
> Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS).  This works smoothly and without a problem.  This
> machine is heavy and not very portable.
>
> I bought a nice little Asus EeePC model  1018PS.  1.1 kg and a battery
> life in excess of 6 hours.  I blew away Windows and installed Ubuntu
> 10.04.  This machine is very light, very portable and will be a very
> good advertisement for Linux when it arrives on the customer's premises.
>
> If it works.
>
> Which it doesn't.
>
> I installed eclipse (Galileo) and android (the latest version, whatever
> it is, and the same one that is on the other machine).  The JRE and JDK
> which they say is required came from the Ubuntu repository and both are
> present.
>
> Eclipse starts and runs, but when I try to install the android plugin, I
> start getting critical errors.  The most frequent is:
>
>    murrine_style_draw_box: assertion 'height>= -1' failed
>
> There must be a memory leak, because in fairly short order it crashes
> with an out of memory condition.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Alan
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