Bug 769532

Summary:	Eclipse can not load plugins after update to 3.7.1-7
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	The Source <thesource>
Component:	eclipse	Assignee:	Alexander Kurtakov <akurtako>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	akurtako, andjrobins, overholt, rgrunber, sgehwolf, swagiaal
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Description The Source 2011-12-21 08:49:32 UTC

Description of problem:
After mentioned update eclipse fails to load it's plugins including cdt, qt (external) and many others. Even in 'About' it shows nothing except himself.
Downgrade to 3.7.1-4 helps. Packages updated together here:
eclipse-platform
eclipse-jdt
eclipse-pde
eclipse-swt
eclipse-rcp
All from 3.7.1-4 to 3.7.1-7

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.7.1-7.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

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Comment 1 Andrew Overholt 2011-12-21 13:44:08 UTC

This situation occurs because we had to break a packaging loop by moving a plugin from eclipse-jdt to eclipse-platform.  Unfortunately, without invasive, fragile workarounds, the only way to fix this is to stop Eclipse, mv ~/.eclipse{,.bak2011-12-21} and restart Eclipse.  Some user preferences may be lost and plugins you manually installed (qt, it sounds like) will be gone but you should get the RPM-installed plugins back and you'll be able to re-install anything you previously installed from within Eclipse.

We apologize for this issue and are working on a more robust solution to ensure it never happens again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 760454 ***