Can't use plugins installed inside eclipse after updating to 3.7.1

[Attila Nagy]

On 07/04/2012 05:31 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 04/07/2012 17:31 Attila Nagy said the following:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just recently updated to eclipse 3.7.1 (from ports) and since then I can't
>> use plugins (CDT and pydev) installed from eclipse (via help->install new software
>> etc).
>> The error is the same as described here:
>> http://eggbung.blogspot.hu/2010/01/pydev-fails-no-editor-descriptor.html
>> What I've tried already: completely purge my ~/.eclipse and workspace directories,
>> run and compile (who knows) it with the all the JDKs (jdk16, openjdk16/17).
>>
>> One thing I found so far is in /usr/local/lib/eclipse/eclipse.ini there is
>> -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/usr/local/share/eclipse/dropins
>>
>> but that directory is empty. The only dropins directory which actually contains
>> jars is: /usr/local/lib/eclipse/dropins
>> Changing this from share to lib doesn't make any changes.
>>
>> BTW, if I install CDT and pydev from ports, they work.
> Try running the following command:
> $ find /usr/local/lib/eclipse -type f \! -perm +004
Nothing is found.
>
>
> Maybe you have a different problem.
> But if that's it, then eclipse port definitely has to be fixed to (_always_)
> install files with correct permissions.
>
According to google results, it's a somewhat common problem. I've faced 
this previously and as far as I can remember, I switched back to the 
previous version and maybe the next update fixed this issue.

Thanks,