The bug seems to be related to libcairo, as mentioned on this blog post:
http://www.dataforte.net/blog/2010/03/03/eclipse-crashes-with-lucid/

Quote:
"The Mozilla bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635. A 
quick workaround is to set the GRE_HOME environment variable to some 
meaningless path (e.g. /tmp) before launching Eclipse. "

Workaround example:
env GRE_HOME=/tmp /opt/eclipse-galileo/eclipse



** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #522635
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635

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