Bug#630631: Apparently the same issue

[Andrew Green]

I checked my 
./eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.6.1*/configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info, 
and it already contains the lines as indicated by the patch submitted by 
Hannes von Haugwitz (message from July 1st, 2011, for bug 587657). Also, 
my locally-installed plugins were indeed active (so I didn't have the 
symptom described by the initial reporter).

So, as far as I can tell, I don't have bug 587657. (In fact, I had 
already installed and configured this version of Eclipse, from 
experimental, several weeks ago, installed the stuff I needed, and 
worked with it fine for a while. I only had a problem when, a couple 
days ago, I tried to update existing plugins before adding some new ones.)

Before sending in my report yesterday, I had noticed that a few of my 
plugins were complaining about not finding a sat4j dependency; that 
error went away when I reverted to an older sat4j package.

After clearing out my .eclipse directory and reinstalling Eclipse 
packages from experimental, the problem seems to have gone away. I 
suppose this means the problem could have come from some of my locally 
installed plugins. Also, for some reason my Install Software menus had 
changed a bit--I'm not quite sure when--and now that I cleared out all 
my local stuff in .eclipse, they're back to they way they've always been.

I did save my old configs and downloaded plugins from my .eclipse 
directory; please let me know if there's something you'd like me to look 
at from there. Hope this has been helpful, thanks, greetings.

El 21/07/11 05:53, Niels Thykier escribió:
> On 2011-07-20 19:44, Andrew Green wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a different, but also possibly related, problem with Eclipse
>> packages from experimental. Though the package worked for a while, it is
>> now unable to access the new p2 update sites (update sites that no
>> longer support the old site.xml format, such as the Helios Discovery
>> Site). Here is the error:
>>
>> [...]
> Hi,
>
> Could you double check you are not affected by #587657 ?  That bug is
> the root of many weird and silent failures.
>
> ~Niels
>
>