Eclipse, User-Installed Plugins won't work

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:58:02 +0200, Ralf Folkerts <ralf.folkerts at gmx.de>  
wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> yesterday I launched Eclipse - after ~3 weeks not using it and ~two  
> "portmaster -a" runs during that period. However, there were none of my  
> Plugins active.
>
> As I was unsure of the Status of my Install I removed my ~/.eclipse and  
> ~/workspace (moved the Projects Files away before) and started "fresh";  
> entered the Update-Locations and installed the Plugins. The Install went  
> fine. However, after a restart of Eclipse the installed Plugins were not  
> "visible" i.e. there was no PyDev Perspective, my PyDev Item in  
> Preferences, ... However, there also were no errors logged in the error  
> log.
>
> I tried several times with several Plugins; log4e, pydev, mylyn, apache  
> directory sudio, HgEclipse. Didn't get them to work and no error logged.  
> I also deinstalled Eclipse and installed freshly, in between checking  
> that /usr/local/lib/eclipse was really completely removed,
>
> Still no success.
>
> Now I just started eclipse with kdesu and installed pydev -- and I  
> indeed got the PyDev Perspective, Pydev-Item in the Properties etc.
>
> Is there anything to consider when installing Updates as mere User? I  
> also recognized that my "User" Update Location List was empty, while the  
> "kdesu" List did contain the "usual" two Update Sites for Eclipse...
>
> Would be cool to get this cleared; I'd prefer to install (and Update)  
> Plugins as "normal" User over running Eclipse as root to perform these  
> tasks.
>
> MTIA & Cheers,
> _ralf_
>

Hi,

I've had the same problem. The good part is that the problem went away,  
but the sad part is, that I don't know what solved it. Can you update all  
your ports and than reinstall eclipse?
The fun thing is, that I didn't have the problem with the eclipse-devel  
port, but only the eclipse port, while those ports where practicly  
identical at some point in time a couple of weeks ago.

What version of the port is installed exactly? I have these:
$ ls -d /var/db/pkg/eclipse-*
eclipse-3.5.2_1 eclipse-devel-3.5.2_3

Ronald.