Eclipse, User-Installed Plugins won't work

Tue Sep 21 17:53:32 UTC 2010

  Am 17.09.2010 01:20, schrieb Ronald Klop:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:54:04 +0200, Ralf Folkerts 
> <ralf.folkerts at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>   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,
>>
>> ok, I updated all Ports, pkg_deleted my Eclipse, removed the 
>> /usr/local/lib/eclipse Directory (which still existed due to the 
>> Plugins installed as "root"), re-built and installed java/eclipse, rm 
>> -rf'ed ~/.eclipse, ~/workspace and /root/workspace.
>>
>> Then started Eclipse -as User-, installed PyDev. Install went thru 
>> fine; the files being installed ended up in 
>> ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.5.0_946975857/plugins/. However, 
>> upon restart I didn't see anything of PyDev.
>>
>> Then started Eclipse as root and installed PyDev - install went thru 
>> like the "User" one - but upon restart I did see PyDev. Removed my 
>> ~/.eclipse and ~/workspace, started Eclipse as User again - and saw 
>> PyDev.
>>
>> The Configuration (Help/About Eclipse SDK/Installation 
>> Details/Configuration) listed these Features after Installation of 
>> PyDev as User:
>>
>> *** Features:
>> org.eclipse.cvs (1.1.101.R35x_v20100125-7E79FGD9kKF67BPDZ7PKCE1911) 
>> "Eclipse CVS Client"
>> org.eclipse.help (1.1.2.R35x_v20100119-7e7eFAnFEx2X_fZltJhDjz-D) 
>> "Help System Base"
>> org.eclipse.jdt (3.5.2.r352_v20100108-7r88FEwFI0WTuoBl0iaG0tyhfZH6) 
>> "Eclipse Java Development Tools"
>> org.eclipse.pde (3.5.2.R35x_v20100119-7Z7_FA2FDX-aXQYWqYDBz-z0qufo) 
>> "PDE"
>> org.eclipse.platform 
>> (3.5.2.R35x_v20100210-0800-9wEnGFyFthz-4yg6B60OIpw65ABz09Ob_FT7JHF) 
>> "Eclipse Platform"
>> org.eclipse.rcp (3.5.2.R35x_v20100119-A-AsG3KFocc4Vz-97iWGrXXb27BA) 
>> "Eclipse RCP"
>> org.eclipse.sdk 
>> (3.5.2.R35x_v20100119-7Q7bARBPkUMMrOSko67clZ43WcZR-CertxP4fj-TDFGhS) 
>> "Eclipse Project SDK"
>>
>> the
>> *** Plug-in Registry:
>> didn't contain anything PyDev-like.
>>
>> after Installation of PyDev as root, however, it looked like
>>
>> *** Features:
>> org.eclipse.cvs (1.1.101.R35x_v20100125-7E79FGD9kKF67BPDZ7PKCE1911) 
>> "Eclipse CVS Client"
>> org.eclipse.help (1.1.2.R35x_v20100119-7e7eFAnFEx2X_fZltJhDjz-D) 
>> "Help System Base"
>> org.eclipse.jdt (3.5.2.r352_v20100108-7r88FEwFI0WTuoBl0iaG0tyhfZH6) 
>> "Eclipse Java Development Tools"
>> org.eclipse.pde (3.5.2.R35x_v20100119-7Z7_FA2FDX-aXQYWqYDBz-z0qufo) 
>> "PDE"
>> org.eclipse.platform 
>> (3.5.2.R35x_v20100210-0800-9wEnGFyFthz-4yg6B60OIpw65ABz09Ob_FT7JHF) 
>> "Eclipse Platform"
>> org.eclipse.rcp (3.5.2.R35x_v20100119-A-AsG3KFocc4Vz-97iWGrXXb27BA) 
>> "Eclipse RCP"
>> org.eclipse.sdk 
>> (3.5.2.R35x_v20100119-7Q7bARBPkUMMrOSko67clZ43WcZR-CertxP4fj-TDFGhS) 
>> "Eclipse Project SDK"
>> org.python.pydev.feature (1.6.2.2010090812) "Pydev - Python 
>> Development Environment"
>>
>> and
>> *** Plug-in Registry:
>> com.ibm.icu (4.0.1.v20090822) "International Components for Unicode 
>> for Java (ICU4J)" [Active]
>> com.jcraft.jsch (0.1.41.v200903070017) "JSch" [Resolved]
>> com.python.pydev (1.6.2.2010090812) "Pydev Extensions" [Starting]
>> com.python.pydev.analysis (1.6.2.2010090812) "Analysis Plug-in" 
>> [Starting]
>> com.python.pydev.codecompletion (1.6.2.2010090812) "Codecompletion 
>> Plug-in" [Starting]
>> com.python.pydev.debug (1.6.2.2010090812) "Extensions Debug Plug-in" 
>> [Starting]
>> com.python.pydev.fastparser (1.6.2.2010090812) "Fastparser Plug-in" 
>> [Starting]
>> com.python.pydev.refactoring (1.6.2.2010090812) "Refactoring Plug-in" 
>> [Starting]
>>
>> did contain PyDev.
>>
>> Then tried to install Log4E as User - however, again I didn't see it 
>> after the Restart.
>>
>> To get my Eclipse into a "workable" state again I'll reinstall all 
>> plugins as root and launch eclipse as root regularly to get any Updates.
>>
>> Does anyone have a hint?
>>
>> MTIA, Cheers,
>> _ralf_
>
> Hi, too bad it didn't help. I don't know anything else to try.
> Isn't there any info in workspace/.metadata/.log?
>
> Ronald. 

Hi Ronald,

well, .metadata/.log does not contain any "helpful" info at all - 
unfortunately. I thought that I might install eclipse-devel, run that 
against my Workspace and then check used-installed Plugins. Probably it 
will change some settings that change the Search-Path for Plugins...

Cheers,
_ralf_