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Unable to acquire PluginConverter [message #1390990]

Mon, 30 June 2014 09:27

Jan Reimann

Messages: 140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,
in Kepler I used to create some private plugins which I shared across
several Eclipse instances. Thus, I have central folders with this structure:

MyTool1
plugins
features

MyTool2
plugins
features

Folders MyTool1 and MyTool2 then are symlinked into the dropins folders
of my different Eclipse instances. This way every of my Eclipse
instances always was up-to-date. It worked like a charme.
Now, I migrated to Luna and get the following errors each time I start a
Luna instance:

Unable to acquire PluginConverter service during generation for:
EclipseLuna/dropins/MyTool1

Unable to acquire PluginConverter service during generation for:
EclipseLuna/dropins/MyTool2

There are some bug reports reporting about the same message but with
other focus. All I've found didn't help to get rid of these messages.
The only solution I found was to move all plugins contained in
dropins/MyToolX/plugins directly to dropins. But, I really don't like
this because every tool then is mixed with the other tools. This way I
cannot deactivate one tool easily.

Any ideas to solve this?

cheers,
Jan

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Re: Unable to acquire PluginConverter [message #1391477 is a reply to message #1390990]

Tue, 01 July 2014 01:18

David Wegener

Messages: 1445
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 06/30/2014 04:27 AM, Jan Reimann wrote:
> Hi,
> in Kepler I used to create some private plugins which I shared across
> several Eclipse instances. Thus, I have central folders with this
> structure:
>
> MyTool1
> plugins
> features
>
>
> MyTool2
> plugins
> features
>
> Folders MyTool1 and MyTool2 then are symlinked into the dropins folders
> of my different Eclipse instances. This way every of my Eclipse
> instances always was up-to-date. It worked like a charme.
> Now, I migrated to Luna and get the following errors each time I start a
> Luna instance:
>
> Unable to acquire PluginConverter service during generation for:
> EclipseLuna/dropins/MyTool1
>
> Unable to acquire PluginConverter service during generation for:
> EclipseLuna/dropins/MyTool2
>
> There are some bug reports reporting about the same message but with
> other focus. All I've found didn't help to get rid of these messages.
> The only solution I found was to move all plugins contained in
> dropins/MyToolX/plugins directly to dropins. But, I really don't like
> this because every tool then is mixed with the other tools. This way I
> cannot deactivate one tool easily.
>
> Any ideas to solve this?
>
> cheers,
> Jan
The PluginConverter implementation was dropped from the standard install
for Luna. You have to install it separately now.

Here are some bug reports talking about the change.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=407312
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=413006

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Re: Unable to acquire PluginConverter [message #1391709 is a reply to message #1391477]

Tue, 01 July 2014 09:30

Jan Reimann

Messages: 140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi David,

> The PluginConverter implementation was dropped from the standard install
> for Luna. You have to install it separately now.
>
> Here are some bug reports talking about the change.
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=407312
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=413006
>

But as I understand it right I'm not supposed to need the
PluginConverter because my Plugins have plugin.xml and MANIFEST.MF and
are not from Eclipse 2.0 times. And the error doesn't appear if the
plugins are directly located in the dropins folder and not in a
subfolder. So do I need to install the PluginConverter?

cheers,
Jan

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Re: Unable to acquire PluginConverter [message #1403644 is a reply to message #1391709]

Thu, 24 July 2014 18:31

David Williams

Messages: 722
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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<blockquote cite="mid:lotv35$ofs$1@xxxxxxxxe.org" type="cite">But
as I understand it right I'm not supposed to need the
PluginConverter because my Plugins have plugin.xml and MANIFEST.MF
and are not from Eclipse 2.0 times. And the error doesn't appear
if the plugins are directly located in the dropins folder and not
in a subfolder. So do I need to install the PluginConverter?
 
 
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I think you are seeing this bug: 
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(If so, no, you do not need to install it, it's an erroneous
message). 
 
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Re: Unable to acquire PluginConverter [message #1403670 is a reply to message #1403644]

Fri, 25 July 2014 08:08

Jan Reimann

Messages: 140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Thanks David.

cheers,
Jan

David Williams wrote:
>
>> But as I understand it right I'm not supposed to need the
>> PluginConverter because my Plugins have plugin.xml and MANIFEST.MF and
>> are not from Eclipse 2.0 times. And the error doesn't appear if the
>> plugins are directly located in the dropins folder and not in a
>> subfolder. So do I need to install the PluginConverter?
>>
> I think you are seeing this bug:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=437466
>
> (If so, no, you do not need to install it, it's an erroneous message).
>

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