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How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723905] Fri, 19 February 2016 04:09 Go to next message
David M. Karr is currently offline David M. KarrFriend
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For quite a while now, I've been struggling with the side effects of running out of disk space on my Ubuntu VM a couple of weeks ago now. I enlarged the virtual disk relatively quickly, but apparently something I was doing with Eclipse at the time managed to corrupt five jar files in my $HOME/.p2 tree. That's the theory, at least.

Along the way, I battled an Eclipse exception message about a corrupted zip file that was telling me nothing about what zip file was corrupted (which I filed a bug for, which someone happily fixed, in the source at least, in less than an hour after I filed it). It took me embarrassingly much longer than it should have for me to realize I could point a debugger at the target instance to figure out what archive was corrupted.

I determined that there were actually five corrupted jar files, all in my "$HOME/.p2" tree, and these are them:
$HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2ecore.editor_2.7.0.v20160201-0859.jar
$HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping_2.9.0.v20160201-0859.jar
$HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml_2.9.0.v20160201-0859.jar
$HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml.ui_2.8.0.v20160201-0859.jar
$HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ui_2.7.0.v20160201-0859.jar


None of these files are zero length, they're just corrupted, as both "jar tvf" and "unzip -tq" tell me.

At this point, I thought I was in the home stretch, because this "$HOME/.p2" thing felt like the "$HOME/.m2/repository" tree, where you can just remove corrupted files and the next Maven build will regenerate them. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Removing any of them just changed the exception message (ironically, now giving me the full path to the jar file that doesn't exist).

So how do I repair this with minimal effort?
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723906 is a reply to message #1723905] Fri, 19 February 2016 04:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There is an Ant task 'p2.remove.iu' to remove an IU from a repo; I wonder if that would be sufficient. I put together a set of wrapper scripts for *nix shells with a p2-remove-ius command that might be helpful.
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723907 is a reply to message #1723906] Fri, 19 February 2016 04:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David M. Karr is currently offline David M. KarrFriend
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Can you elaborate? I'm vaguely familiar with what an IU is, but I have no idea what removing an IU from a repo would do. Can you describe a series of steps using these scripts that would result in a repaired p2 repo?
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723912 is a reply to message #1723905] Fri, 19 February 2016 04:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eike Stepper is currently offline Eike StepperFriend
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Hi David,

With the Eclipse Installer (in advanced mode on the first page; in simple mode via the "Bundle Pools..." menu item) you
can open the Bundle Pool Analysis tool. There you can wait for the damage detection to finish and then either attempt to
repair or delete damaged artifacts. I've attached a screenshot for you. It's kind of an advanced function, so please
make a backup copy of your entire pool before you try to modify it. And please let me know how the procedure worked for
you. Good luck ;-)

Cheers
/Eike

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Am 19.02.2016 um 05:09 schrieb David M. Karr:
> For quite a while now, I've been struggling with the side effects of running out of disk space on my Ubuntu VM a
> couple of weeks ago now. I enlarged the virtual disk relatively quickly, but apparently something I was doing with
> Eclipse at the time managed to corrupt five jar files in my $HOME/.p2 tree. That's the theory, at least.
>
> Along the way, I battled an Eclipse exception message about a corrupted zip file that was telling me nothing about
> what zip file was corrupted (which I filed a bug for, which someone happily fixed, in the source at least, in less
> than an hour after I filed it). It took me embarrassingly much longer than it should have for me to realize I could
> point a debugger at the target instance to figure out what archive was corrupted.
>
> I determined that there were actually five corrupted jar files, all in my "$HOME/.p2" tree, and these are them:
> $HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2ecore.editor_2.7.0.v20160201-0859.jar
> $HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping_2.9.0.v20160201-0859.jar
> $HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml_2.9.0.v20160201-0859.jar
> $HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml.ui_2.8.0.v20160201-0859.jar
> $HOME/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ui_2.7.0.v20160201-0859.jar
>
> None of these files are zero length, they're just corrupted, as both "jar tvf" and "unzip -tq" tell me.
>
> At this point, I thought I was in the home stretch, because this "$HOME/.p2" thing felt like the
> "$HOME/.m2/repository" tree, where you can just remove corrupted files and the next Maven build will regenerate them.
> Unfortunately, this is not the case. Removing any of them just changed the exception message (ironically, now giving
> me the full path to the jar file that doesn't exist).
>
> So how do I repair this with minimal effort?


Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723913 is a reply to message #1723912] Fri, 19 February 2016 04:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David M. Karr is currently offline David M. KarrFriend
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Looks promising, but when I try to download the "Eclipse Installer" for my platform, which is Ubuntu Linux, it appears that it's just the regular archive format.
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723916 is a reply to message #1723913] Fri, 19 February 2016 05:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David M. Karr is currently offline David M. KarrFriend
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Never mind on that point, I noticed the executable inside the archive. Working on this now.
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723918 is a reply to message #1723913] Fri, 19 February 2016 05:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eike Stepper is currently offline Eike StepperFriend
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Am 19.02.2016 um 05:59 schrieb David M. Karr:
> Looks promising, but when I try to download the "Eclipse Installer" for my platform, which is Ubuntu Linux, it appears
> that it's just the regular archive format.
Yes. Please extract it to some location on your disk and run the "eclipse-inst" executable to start the Eclipse
Installer. If you have at least one startable Eclipse IDE on your machine, you can also open the Bundle Bool Analyzer
via Preferences -> Oomph -> Bundle Pools.

Cheers
/Eike

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Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723919 is a reply to message #1723918] Fri, 19 February 2016 05:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David M. Karr is currently offline David M. KarrFriend
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Outstanding. It worked. It worked. Wow.

So since I have that Oomph section in the Eclipse instance that was having the problem (and since the $HOME/.p2 isn't specific to a single instance, it would be any on the same host), does that mean I didn't even need the one from the installer, I could have run the analyzer directly from the Oomph preferences?
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723920 is a reply to message #1723919] Fri, 19 February 2016 05:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David M. Karr is currently offline David M. KarrFriend
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And if you want SO credit Smile , you can submit the same answer on my SO posting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35488152/how-can-i-repair-a-damaged-eclipse-home-p2-repository , or I'll do it myself later, referring back to this thread.
Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723921 is a reply to message #1723919] Fri, 19 February 2016 05:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eike Stepper is currently offline Eike StepperFriend
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Am 19.02.2016 um 06:20 schrieb David M. Karr:
> Outstanding. It worked. It worked. Wow.
Very good.

>
> So since I have that Oomph section in the Eclipse instance that was having the problem (and since the $HOME/.p2 isn't
> specific to a single instance, it would be any on the same host), does that mean I didn't even need the one from the
> installer, I could have run the analyzer directly from the Oomph preferences?
Yes ;-)

Cheers
/Eike

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Re: How to repair corrupted files in the $HOME/.p2 repo? [message #1723922 is a reply to message #1723920] Fri, 19 February 2016 05:29 Go to previous message
Eike Stepper is currently offline Eike StepperFriend
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Am 19.02.2016 um 06:22 schrieb David M. Karr:
> And if you want SO credit :) , you can submit the same answer on my SO posting:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35488152/how-can-i-repair-a-damaged-eclipse-home-p2-repository , or I'll do it
> myself later, referring back to this thread.
Hehe, please take the credit. I'm glad it worked for you.

Cheers
/Eike

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