Eclipse, User-Installed Plugins won't work

[Ralf Folkerts]

(sorry - just recognized that I sent my reply only to Ronald, not to the List.)

Am 15.09.2010 12:28, schrieb 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.

Hi Ronald,

thanks for the quick reply! Well, at least I'm not the only one who
stepped into that Problem ;-)

I just updated (csup and "portmaster -a") my Ports a few days ago (to
get the latest kdepim). I'm just now running a csup and will run a
portupgrade -a this evening. I also ran a portmaster --check-depends and
pkg_libchk (and tried with JDK 1.6.0, OpenJDK 6, and OpenJDK 7).
However, as there is no error in Eclipse's Error-Log it seems more like
a config-Problem than a missing dependency to me (i.e. it seems as if
Eclipse will install Plugins in ~/.eclipse when it cannot write to
/usr/local/lib/eclipse/plugins but only looks for them in /usr/local...
and not in ~/.eclipse.

My Eclipse-Version is the same as yours;

$ls -ld /var/db/pkg/*eclipse*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 15 Sep 09:16 /var/db/pkg/eclipse-3.5.2_1
$

It's rather strange that the problem disappeared on your installation;
I'll try the Update this evening and will try to investigate a bit
deeper later...

Thanks again!
Cheers,
_ralf_