Bug eclipse ---help requested

[Vizion]

On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:27,  the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue 
on-
 Re: Bug eclipse ---help requested: 

>On Saturday 04 June 2005 21:10,  the author Vizion contributed to the
> dialogue on-
> Re: Bug eclipse ---help requested:
>
>The news is not good -- still got exactly the same problem. I tried it with
>both mozilla and mozilla firefox but no good.
>
> I noticed that when the application first booted the load sequence seemed
> to show help files being loaded  -- but when you try and access the help or
> the 4 main links on the welcome page I have the same results.
>
>I get the impression that the path to the help files is getting screwed up.
>However I have no evidence to justify that. Are there any configuration
> files that can tell me where eclipse thinks it should be getting its help
> files from?
>Thanks again
>David


The browser was launched and returns the usual error report:

"The document that you have requested is not available. The link may be wrong, 
or you may not have the corresponding product feature installed."

However I get this error message from the eclipse platform error log:
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Warning 2005-06-04 23:18:20.422 Internal browser is not operational
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path 
(MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set)]
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2966)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Browser.java:130)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.browser.WebBrowserUtil.canUseInternalWebBrowser(WebBrowserUtil.java:136)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.browser.DefaultBrowserSupport.isInternalWebBrowserAvailable(DefaultBrowserSupport.java:165)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.browser.WorkbenchBrowserSupport.isInternalWebBrowserAvailable(WorkbenchBrowserSupport.java:112)
at 
org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.browser.BrowsersPreferencePage.createDynamicHelpArea(BrowsersPreferencePage.java:194)
at 
org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.browser.BrowsersPreferencePage.createContents(BrowsersPreferencePage.java:141)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferencePage.createControl(PreferencePage.java:232)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.createPageControl(PreferenceDialog.java:1376)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$12.run(PreferenceDialog.java:1139)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:1038)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:775)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:44)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:148)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.showPage(PreferenceDialog.java:1133)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.FilteredPreferenceDialog.showPage(FilteredPreferenceDialog.java:351)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$8.selectionChanged(PreferenceDialog.java:639)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$3.run(StructuredViewer.java:763)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:1038)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:775)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:44)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:148)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.firePostSelectionChanged(StructuredViewer.java:761)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handlePostSelect(StructuredViewer.java:1042)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$5.widgetSelected(StructuredViewer.java:1062)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.firePostSelectionEvent(OpenStrategy.java:231)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$4(OpenStrategy.java:226)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$3.run(OpenStrategy.java:392)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at 
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:118)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:2802)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2533)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:809)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:787)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run(OpenPreferencesAction.java:66)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:996)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:538)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2
(ActionContributionItem.java:488)
at 
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:400)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1016)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:2825)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2530)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1694)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1658)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:366)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:143)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:103)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:226)
at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:375)
at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:162)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:334)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:278)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:973)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:948)
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Hope this helps


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