IntelliJ IDEA, JDK 1.4.1-p3, 5.0-p7, "Bad file descriptor"

[Andrew Houghton]

Sheldon Hearn wrote:

>On (2003/05/15 22:39), Andrew Houghton wrote:
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>>When I first create a project in the IDE, and the jar files are copied 
>>to the ~/.IntelliJIdea  cache directory, I'm getting little dialog boxes 
>>that somethine like "Cannot copy <some file name> to 
>>/usr/home/aah/.IntelliJIdea/system/jars/<some file name>: Bad file 
>>descriptor".  When I look in the .../system/jars directory, everything 
>>looks fine.
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>>I'm also seeing this when I try compilations on projects.  I see the 
>>compilation proceed and I see errors and warnings -- briefly -- showing 
>>source paths and line numbers.  Somewhere in the middle of the 
>>compilation, most (but not all) of those error references go away and 
>>the lines say 'Bad file descriptor'.
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>>Does anyone else using IDEA see this?
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>Yes.  I just got it trying to create my first project, the first time I
>ran IDEA.  Not a great first impression.
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>I deviated a little from the installation instructions, which wanted me
>to copy the entire JRE into the IDEA home directory.  Yeah, right!
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>However, you're saying you get these during compilation?  Have you got
>any symlinks in your source tree?
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>I don't know what the problem is, just trying to find common ground.
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>Ciao,
>Sheldon.
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Well, I've been using IDEA a lot lately at work, on linux boxes, and I 
have to say I love it.  I've had to make fewer changes in the way I 
think about projects to get traction with it than with most of the other 
IDEs I've seen (JEdit being a notable exception, but I think that's 
because JEdit was a thin emacs replacement for me).  Anyway --  the 
problems on my FreeBSD box at home are annoying, to say the least.

I get these errors during compilation, too.  Maybe you'll have better 
luck with their log file than I did.. check 
~/.IntelliJIdea/system/log/idea.log; when I looked through mine, I 
couldn't see any exceptions that implied this problem.  I'm seeing these 
errors with both jikes and javac compilers.

The next test is to set it up and run it under linux-jdk14; if it works, 
at least this can be narrowed down to a native JDK problem (I think).  I 
just don't have time this morning, maybe I'll try tomorrow.

Oh, and no -- no symlinks for me, disk space is cheap. :)

- a.