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Locking is not possible in the directory [message #1029520]

Fri, 29 March 2013 20:27

Margaret doll

Messages: 1
Registered: March 2013

Junior Member

I downloaded and installed

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers/junosr2

in /usr/local/ as root.

root can run the program, but other users cannot. They get

Locking is not possible in the directory "/usr/local/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi". A common reason is that the file system or Runtime Environment does not support file locking for that location. Please choose a different location, or disable file locking passing "-Dosgi.locking=none" as a VM argument.
/usr/local/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager/.fileTableLock (Permission denied

even if they use

eclipse -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none

How do I get this program working for ordinary users?

Also I see that logs are created in ../eclipse/configuration. It is inconvenient to clear out these files. Can the logs be sent to the user's home directory or to /var/log/eclipse instead?

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Re: Locking is not possible in the directory [message #1053320 is a reply to message #1029520]

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:59

Daniel Jongeling

Messages: 1
Registered: May 2013

Junior Member

I ran into this problem trying to connect with a network drive. I have succesfully solved this on this environment by adding a line at the end of the config.ini file.

osgi.locking=none

After that I was able to set up a workspace on the network drive. Hope that helps.

Daniel

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