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Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #490830] Sun, 11 October 2009 16:58 Go to next message
Ric Wright is currently offline Ric WrightFriend
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I saw a long thread on "ignored plugins" earlier, but I am seeing a somewhat
different problem. I have set of plugins I am developing. The are not
installed (yet). In an older sandbox (i.e. Workspace), the plugin in
question loads when I launch the run-time workbench and everything is fine.
In the new sandbox, Eclipse ignores the plugin. In both cases, all looks
identical. This is on my Mac. On windows, everything works fine - both old
and new sandboxes (i.e. Workspaces). To me, this all suggests environment
(JVM, etc.) which is where I am looking. I have tried various options, such
as -clean. No soap.

But my question is, is there anyway to tell Eclipse to log the info as it
loads plugins? I am assuming it iterates through all the plugins, reading
the plugin.xml and Manifests and something is wrong. But there is no error
message, no log, nothing. Is there any way to force it to log this info?
Is there any efficient way to tackle this other than tedious inspection and
diffs?

TIA, Ric
Re: Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #490855 is a reply to message #490830] Sun, 11 October 2009 21:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michael Pellaton is currently offline Michael PellatonFriend
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Hi

Some unsorted ideas
- Each bundle can define an execution environment. If that's set to Java
1.6 and your Win-Box has Java 1.6 and your Mac has 1.5, it would
explain the behaviour.
- Does the Bundle have dependencies to some other Bundle not available
on the Mac?
- Are the launch configurations identical?
- append the command line opttion -consoleLog to hopefully see more
logging statements
- In the launched Eclipse, open the 'Plug-in Registry' view. Look for
your Plug-ins. Problems are indicated with decorator icons. Besides
that you might want to enable the 'Advanced Operations' in the context
menu - the now appearing commands might help you finding the problem.
- Use the OSGi console. Refer to (you need the ss and diag commands):
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os- ecl-osgiconsole/

HTH

Michael
Re: Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #490936 is a reply to message #490830] Mon, 12 October 2009 12:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dani Megert is currently offline Dani MegertFriend
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Ric Wright wrote:
> I saw a long thread on "ignored plugins" earlier, but I am seeing a somewhat
> different problem. I have set of plugins I am developing. The are not
> installed (yet). In an older sandbox (i.e. Workspace), the plugin in
> question loads when I launch the run-time workbench and everything is fine.
> In the new sandbox, Eclipse ignores the plugin. In both cases, all looks
> identical. This is on my Mac. On windows, everything works fine - both old
> and new sandboxes (i.e. Workspaces). To me, this all suggests environment
> (JVM, etc.) which is where I am looking. I have tried various options, such
> as -clean. No soap.
>
Try -debug

Dani
> But my question is, is there anyway to tell Eclipse to log the info as it
> loads plugins? I am assuming it iterates through all the plugins, reading
> the plugin.xml and Manifests and something is wrong. But there is no error
> message, no log, nothing. Is there any way to force it to log this info?
> Is there any efficient way to tackle this other than tedious inspection and
> diffs?
>
> TIA, Ric
>
>
Re: Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #491007 is a reply to message #490936] Mon, 12 October 2009 18:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ric Wright is currently offline Ric WrightFriend
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Thanks guys. I tried both Michaels and Daniel's suggestions. I have made
some progress. Looks like some sort of JVM mismatch. Or at least, that's
what is seems since consoleLog claims all the unloaded plugins are
"unresolved". But that might be a red herring. Still digging.

Ric


On 10/12/09 5:47 AM, in article hav8g7$tc8$2@build.eclipse.org, "Daniel
Megert" <daniel_megert@ch.ibm.com> wrote:

> Ric Wright wrote:
>> I saw a long thread on "ignored plugins" earlier, but I am seeing a somewhat
>> different problem. I have set of plugins I am developing. The are not
>> installed (yet). In an older sandbox (i.e. Workspace), the plugin in
>> question loads when I launch the run-time workbench and everything is fine.
>> In the new sandbox, Eclipse ignores the plugin. In both cases, all looks
>> identical. This is on my Mac. On windows, everything works fine - both old
>> and new sandboxes (i.e. Workspaces). To me, this all suggests environment
>> (JVM, etc.) which is where I am looking. I have tried various options, such
>> as -clean. No soap.
>>
> Try -debug
>
> Dani
>> But my question is, is there anyway to tell Eclipse to log the info as it
>> loads plugins? I am assuming it iterates through all the plugins, reading
>> the plugin.xml and Manifests and something is wrong. But there is no error
>> message, no log, nothing. Is there any way to force it to log this info?
>> Is there any efficient way to tackle this other than tedious inspection and
>> diffs?
>>
>> TIA, Ric
>>
>>
Re: Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #491008 is a reply to message #491007] Mon, 12 October 2009 18:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ric Wright is currently offline Ric WrightFriend
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Well, made some progress and one of the plugins got resolved, so the
simplest plugin now works. But others still claim they are not "resolved".
One odd bit of info is that in the manifest of all the plugins - even the
ones that work - the Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: has a warning. It
is set to Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: J2SE-1.5. This is the
default on the Mac. The details for the warning say " The JRE container on
the classpath is not a perfect match to the 'J2SE-1.5' execution
environment". But if I go to the Library tab in the Build path dialog,
select the JRE, then the edit button, I get a dialog that lists Execution
Environments.If I select the "Environments..." Button, then choose J2SE1.5,
it gives me a list of options. One of them is the default JVM for the Mac,
which is listed as "a perfect match". But selecting that doesn't clear the
warning.

I suspect this area has something to do with the plugins that aren't working
"not being resolved", but am kind of stumped at this point. Still digging.

BTW, the plugin that works has this same warning, which suggests this too is
red herring...

Thanks, Ric


On 10/12/09 11:32 AM, in article C6F8C43F.3C066%riwright@adobe.com, "Ric
Wright" <riwright@adobe.com> wrote:

> Thanks guys. I tried both Michaels and Daniel's suggestions. I have made
> some progress. Looks like some sort of JVM mismatch. Or at least, that's
> what is seems since consoleLog claims all the unloaded plugins are
> "unresolved". But that might be a red herring. Still digging.
>
> Ric
>
>
> On 10/12/09 5:47 AM, in article hav8g7$tc8$2@build.eclipse.org, "Daniel
> Megert" <daniel_megert@ch.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Ric Wright wrote:
>>> I saw a long thread on "ignored plugins" earlier, but I am seeing a somewhat
>>> different problem. I have set of plugins I am developing. The are not
>>> installed (yet). In an older sandbox (i.e. Workspace), the plugin in
>>> question loads when I launch the run-time workbench and everything is fine.
>>> In the new sandbox, Eclipse ignores the plugin. In both cases, all looks
>>> identical. This is on my Mac. On windows, everything works fine - both old
>>> and new sandboxes (i.e. Workspaces). To me, this all suggests environment
>>> (JVM, etc.) which is where I am looking. I have tried various options, such
>>> as -clean. No soap.
>>>
>> Try -debug
>>
>> Dani
>>> But my question is, is there anyway to tell Eclipse to log the info as it
>>> loads plugins? I am assuming it iterates through all the plugins, reading
>>> the plugin.xml and Manifests and something is wrong. But there is no error
>>> message, no log, nothing. Is there any way to force it to log this info?
>>> Is there any efficient way to tackle this other than tedious inspection and
>>> diffs?
>>>
>>> TIA, Ric
>>>
>>>
>
Re: Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #491069 is a reply to message #491007] Tue, 13 October 2009 06:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dani Megert is currently offline Dani MegertFriend
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Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Ric Wright wrote:
> Thanks guys. I tried both Michaels and Daniel's suggestions. I have made
> some progress. Looks like some sort of JVM mismatch. Or at least, that's
> what is seems since consoleLog claims all the unloaded plugins are
> "unresolved". But that might be a red herring. Still digging.
>
Can you attach the console output here? And also check the .log file.

Dani
> Ric
>
>
> On 10/12/09 5:47 AM, in article hav8g7$tc8$2@build.eclipse.org, "Daniel
> Megert" <daniel_megert@ch.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Ric Wright wrote:
>>
>>> I saw a long thread on "ignored plugins" earlier, but I am seeing a somewhat
>>> different problem. I have set of plugins I am developing. The are not
>>> installed (yet). In an older sandbox (i.e. Workspace), the plugin in
>>> question loads when I launch the run-time workbench and everything is fine.
>>> In the new sandbox, Eclipse ignores the plugin. In both cases, all looks
>>> identical. This is on my Mac. On windows, everything works fine - both old
>>> and new sandboxes (i.e. Workspaces). To me, this all suggests environment
>>> (JVM, etc.) which is where I am looking. I have tried various options, such
>>> as -clean. No soap.
>>>
>>>
>> Try -debug
>>
>> Dani
>>
>>> But my question is, is there anyway to tell Eclipse to log the info as it
>>> loads plugins? I am assuming it iterates through all the plugins, reading
>>> the plugin.xml and Manifests and something is wrong. But there is no error
>>> message, no log, nothing. Is there any way to force it to log this info?
>>> Is there any efficient way to tackle this other than tedious inspection and
>>> diffs?
>>>
>>> TIA, Ric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
Re: Tracking plugin loading errors? [message #491176 is a reply to message #491069] Tue, 13 October 2009 14:35 Go to previous message
Ric Wright is currently offline Ric WrightFriend
Messages: 70
Registered: July 2009
Member
OK, I seem to have finally resolved this. There were two errors. One was a
misconfiguration of the manifest in my JOGL plugin (which IS installed in
the eclipse/plugin folder - there was no Bundle-NativeCode: declaration. I
believe that had no relation to this problem but was causing a real runtime
error with OpenGL).

But the cause of the problems in general was the mismatch between what
Eclipse saw as the required execution environment and what the manifest was
declaring. The default for Mac (in Leopard, 10.5) is JVM 1.5.0 (as noted
below). This has to be declared (apparently) in the Manifest.mf as
J2SE-1.5. In a couple of cases, the Manifest.mf still declared J2SE-1.6
_DESPITE_ the fact that I had edited the build properties library tab to
select the default JVM. So I guess that tab doesn't set the Manifest.mf
line? What does? The interrelationships between the build.properties,
Manifest.mf, and plugin.xml and the PDE panels seems a little byzantine at
times. It's a bit tricky I know as I have been building a PDE-style
multipage editor which has an underlying XML file and keeping it all in
synch is tricky. But perhaps I misunderstand how it is supposed to work.

Thanks for the various suggestions.

Ric



On 10/12/09 11:41 PM, in article hb17f0$6h3$1@build.eclipse.org, "Daniel
Megert" <daniel_megert@ch.ibm.com> wrote:

> Ric Wright wrote:
>> Thanks guys. I tried both Michaels and Daniel's suggestions. I have made
>> some progress. Looks like some sort of JVM mismatch. Or at least, that's
>> what is seems since consoleLog claims all the unloaded plugins are
>> "unresolved". But that might be a red herring. Still digging.
>>
> Can you attach the console output here? And also check the .log file.
>
> Dani
>> Ric
>>
>>
>> On 10/12/09 5:47 AM, in article hav8g7$tc8$2@build.eclipse.org, "Daniel
>> Megert" <daniel_megert@ch.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ric Wright wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw a long thread on "ignored plugins" earlier, but I am seeing a
>>>> somewhat
>>>> different problem. I have set of plugins I am developing. The are not
>>>> installed (yet). In an older sandbox (i.e. Workspace), the plugin in
>>>> question loads when I launch the run-time workbench and everything is fine.
>>>> In the new sandbox, Eclipse ignores the plugin. In both cases, all looks
>>>> identical. This is on my Mac. On windows, everything works fine - both
>>>> old
>>>> and new sandboxes (i.e. Workspaces). To me, this all suggests environment
>>>> (JVM, etc.) which is where I am looking. I have tried various options,
>>>> such
>>>> as -clean. No soap.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Try -debug
>>>
>>> Dani
>>>
>>>> But my question is, is there anyway to tell Eclipse to log the info as it
>>>> loads plugins? I am assuming it iterates through all the plugins, reading
>>>> the plugin.xml and Manifests and something is wrong. But there is no error
>>>> message, no log, nothing. Is there any way to force it to log this info?
>>>> Is there any efficient way to tackle this other than tedious inspection and
>>>> diffs?
>>>>
>>>> TIA, Ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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