ubuntu - eclipse org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles

On ubuntu 18.04, eclipse fails after startup and also fail with its installer.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2019-01-29 14:14:22.895
!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles
    at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4621)
    at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4510)
    at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4481)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.error(Widget.java:526)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.drawBackground(Control.java:208)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(Control.java:6285)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5880)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.GTK._gtk_main_do_event(Native Method)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.GTK.gtk_main_do_event(GTK.java:3969)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.eventProc(Display.java:1385)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._g_main_context_iteration(Native Method)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.g_main_context_iteration(OS.java:1581)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4470)
    at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:822)
    at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:798)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WorkbenchPreferenceDialog.open(WorkbenchPreferenceDialog.java:214)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run(OpenPreferencesAction.java:66)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:476)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:568)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.lambda$4(ActionContributionItem.java:400)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:89)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:5663)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1386)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4931)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4472)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1173)
    at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:339)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1062)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:156)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:636)
    at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:339)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:563)
    at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:151)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:155)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:203)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:137)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:107)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:400)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:255)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:659)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:595)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1501)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1474)