Eclipse, User-Installed Plugins won't work

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Wed Sep 22 07:06:27 UTC 2010


On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:53:28 +0200, Ralf Folkerts <ralf.folkerts at gmx.de>  
wrote:

>   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_

As there are no replies from other people on this topic we might be the  
only ones with the problem (and I can't reproduce them anymore). Strange.  
Did the eclipse-devel trick work?

Ronald.


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