Bug 639901 - Disappearing startup error messagebox
Summary: Disappearing startup error messagebox
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: eclipse
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Alexander Kurtakov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-04 10:07 UTC by Mads Kiilerich
Modified: 2012-04-30 15:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-04-30 15:14:37 UTC
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the mentioned log (31.42 KB, text/plain)
2010-10-04 10:07 UTC, Mads Kiilerich
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Description Mads Kiilerich 2010-10-04 10:07:41 UTC
Created attachment 451366 [details]
the mentioned log

For some reason I got a message box when trying to start eclipse:

    Eclipse
    An error has occurred. See the log file
    /home/mk/.eclipse/155965261/configuration/1286185574949.log.
    [Close]

That message is not alt-tabable (in Gnome), so when switching to an editor/command line for opening the logfile the messagebox seems to disappear.

I would expect eclipse to appear in the window list and be alt-tab-reachable if it displays any gui elements.

I would also expect such a fundamental messages to also be shown on stdout, especially with -debug.

This may not be a Fedora-specific problem, but it is a problem that causes that eclipse doesn't integrates as nice with Fedora as we would like.

(Starting with -clean fixed the problem. The original error log has been attached. It might be a problem when upgrading from f13, but I don't have enough evidence for reporting that as a bug.)

eclipse-platform-3.6.0-3.fc14.i686

Comment 1 Severin Gehwolf 2010-10-04 13:22:36 UTC
Could you start eclipse from a terminal like so:

$ eclipse -debug -consolelog

Could you attach the output you are getting on the console. Thanks!

Comment 2 Severin Gehwolf 2010-10-04 13:33:43 UTC
Ok sorry, please disregard my comment above. The logs you provided are sufficient. It looks like this is a problem related to some cached data when upgrading from 3.5.x to 3.6.x.

> I would also expect such a fundamental messages to also be shown on stdout,
> especially with -debug.

$ eclipse -debug -consolelog

should show the trace in the console.

Comment 3 Mads Kiilerich 2010-10-04 13:45:33 UTC
Note that I have been using the upstream pydev development "software repository" while running f13, but regularly uninstalled it and thus downgraded to the rpm-packaged pydev without any problems.

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov 2010-10-06 08:33:43 UTC
Downgrades are not supported and they are creating nasty side effects that noone has tested nor wants to test.

Comment 5 Alexander Kurtakov 2012-04-30 15:14:37 UTC
Closing as Fedora 14 is long dead. Please reopen if still reproducible with supported Fedora release.


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