Eclipse crashes right at startup

Question

After upgrading the system with `pacman -Syy` and `pacman -Su`, it is no
longer possible to start Eclipse. Trying to do so results in the following error
message:
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f3eba331150, pid=1218, tid=139907392960256
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_31-b13) (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.31-b07 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libpthread.so.0+0x12150]  __lll_unlock_elision+0x30
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/albert/hs_err_pid1218.log
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
This problem also occurs with GGTS, the Groovy on Grails Tool Suite (installed directly
from SpringSource).

Answer 1

This could well be the case. After manually installing the newest NVIDIA drivers, Eclipse
(and also GGTS) started without problems. I can't confirm that downgrading would also
work, since my attempt to do so resulted in a system that wouldn't start X at all ;-).