Bug eclipse ---help requested

[Vizion]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 00:39,  the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue 
on-
 Re: Bug eclipse ---help requested: 

>On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:47,  the author Vizion contributed to the
> dialogue on-
> Re: Bug eclipse ---help requested:
>Are you able to get your help system running - if so would you mind telling
> me which browser are you using and what permissions do you have set in the
> eclipse file hierarchy?
>
>Looking at the error messages I am asking whether, by default, eclipse
>exprects to be able to write files in /usr/local/eclipse/
>
>Could that be true? Perhaps the application is trying to write temporary
> files into the eclipse directory -- If true am not comfortable with that
> idea -- do you have any idea how the configuration is set?
Here is a bug report which seems to point to difficulty in writing a Tempfile:
unfortunately I cannot undertsand from this info where it is trying to write 
the file!
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Error 2005-06-05 07:57:54.29 Errors while creating installation history file.
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException[4]: java.io.IOException: Permission 
denied
	at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
	at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1345)
	at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1434)
	at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1471)
	at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.views.InstallationHistoryAction.getTempFile(InstallationHistoryAction.java:77)
	at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.views.InstallationHistoryAction.openLog(InstallationHistoryAction.java:68)
	at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.views.InstallationHistoryAction.run(InstallationHistoryAction.java:51)
	at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.views.ConfigurationView$PreviewTask.run(ConfigurationView.java:342)
	at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.views.ConfigurationPreview$2.linkActivated(ConfigurationPreview.java:78)
	at org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormText.activateLink(FormText.java:1459)
	at org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormText.handleMouseClick(FormText.java:1274)
	at org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormText.access$18(FormText.java:1248)
	at org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormText$6.mouseUp(FormText.java:380)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:136)
	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)


>
>david

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