Description of problem: I am building an RCP app on Linux Fedora 8 x86_64. It is a stock standard pure Fedora installation, with all updates. I use the "Eclipse Product export wizard" to make a standalone app. It creates a folder with appname.ini, configuration, icon.xpm, jre, plugins, startup.jar. Problem: there is no launcher. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eclipse-pde.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 eclipse-pde-runtime.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 eclipse-platform.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 eclipse-rcp.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 Additional info: I see no error messages in the console view. It looks as if the wizard creates a folder for the launcher but quickly deletes it again. The app works fine when started from inside eclipse. The export works fine when done with a manually installed eclipse+pde downloaded directly from eclipse.org.
Please give the output of the stuff on this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebuggingEclipseProblems#preview Also, try running with -consolelog and/or -debug and see if you get any stack traces. Alternatively, look in the .log file in your workspace's .metadata directory.
Created attachment 292837 [details] logfile. Starting eclipse and doing the export.
[root@studio ~]# for f in `rpm -aq | egrep "eclipse|swt"`; do rpm -qV $f; done [root@studio ~]# which java /usr/bin/java [root@studio ~]# readlink -f `which java` /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0.x86_64/jre/bin/java [root@studio ~]# which javac /usr/bin/javac [root@studio ~]# readlink -f `which javac` /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0.x86_64/bin/javac [root@studio ~]# java -version java version "1.7.0" IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b21) IcedTea 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.7.0-b21, mixed mode) [root@studio ~]# yum list eclipse* Installed Packages eclipse-cdt.x86_64 1:4.0.1-1.fc8 installed eclipse-cvs-client.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-ecj.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-jdt.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-mylyn.x86_64 2.0.0-9.fc8 installed eclipse-mylyn-bugzilla.x86_64 2.0.0-9.fc8 installed eclipse-mylyn-ide.x86_64 2.0.0-9.fc8 installed eclipse-mylyn-java.x86_64 2.0.0-9.fc8 installed eclipse-mylyn-pde.x86_64 2.0.0-9.fc8 installed eclipse-mylyn-trac.x86_64 2.0.0-9.fc8 installed eclipse-pde.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-pde-runtime.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-platform.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-rcp.x86_64 1:3.3.0-30.fc8 installed eclipse-subclipse.x86_64 1.2.4-5.fc8 installed Available Packages --cut-- also see attached logfile
I think this is a dupe of bug #188093. The stack-traces look the same, at least.
Created attachment 292847 [details] screenshot of Help : Software Updates : Manage Configurations There are error indications here, which I don't get with the upstream eclipse. Is this common with fedora?
(In reply to comment #5) > There are error indications here, which I don't get with the upstream eclipse. > Is this common with fedora? Yeah, this is actually a known upstream bug with the update manager. I don't know the # offhand, but since that's all being re-written for 3.4, I don't think it's worth trying to fix now.
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I'm really not sure what was going on with 3.3.x in Fedora 8 but I just tried exporting the RCP Mail example as a product and I got a launcher in my export directory. I was able to run the application, too.
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