[Lance Drake]

Hi MyEclipse Support,

Despite trying every possible combination of ECLIPSE & MYECLIPSE – reading thru the Eclipse.org archives – checking the MyEclipse archives – doing a Google search – and otherwise making every effort to answer my own question prior to posting here, I must report I am at a loss for what is happening and why I cannot launch the Eclipse/MyEclipse IDE application in my Mac tower running Leopard v10.5.3 build 9D29

BTW: I mention the version of Leopard only to be specific – I have had the same problem with earlier versions of Leopard but imagined I simply needed to be more deliberate and also let a little time go by for the Eclipse developers to attend to whatever was the problem. So – this is not something new with 10.5.3, per se.

BELOW: The complaint which ends up as a file in the eclipse/configuration folder says it’s something basic and something serious.

!SESSION 2008-05-12 00:49:48.727 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20071023-1652
java.version=1.5.0_13
java.vendor=Apple Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86, WS=carbon, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -keyring /Users/lance/.eclipse_keyring -showlocation -product com.genuitec.myeclipse.product.ide
Command-line arguments:  -os macosx -ws carbon -arch x86 -keyring /Users/lance/.eclipse_keyring -consoleLog -showlocation -product com.genuitec.myeclipse.product.ide

!ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 4 0 2008-05-12 00:49:49.545
!MESSAGE 
!STACK 0
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exception in org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.start() of bundle org.eclipse.update.configurator.
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:1018)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:974)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:346)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:350)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1118)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:634)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:508)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:282)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:468)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:195)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:297)
Caused by: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Cannot create configuration in file:/DEVELOPER/eclipse/configuration/
    at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.Utils.newCoreException(Utils.java:96)
    at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.initialize(ConfigurationActivator.java:113)
    at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.start(ConfigurationActivator.java:69)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$2.run(BundleContextImpl.java:999)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
...and so on...

Does anyone have a clue or work-around for this? I was under the impression that Eclipse/MyEclipse worked with MacOSX 10.5 [LEOPARD] – is this not the case?

Thanks very much for your response to my question.

Best Wishes,

Lance Drake

[Loyal Water]

Lance,
What happens when you try to run Eclipse without installing MyEclipse on it ? Do you still get the same set of errors ?

Have you tried using pulse (www.poweredbypulse.com) to launch MyEclipse?

[Lance Drake]

Hi MyEclipse Support,

Exactly as you suggested, I finally got to the point where I decided to see if Eclipse would run on its own – without installing MyEclipse. Of course, the answer was “No…”.

So I created a new TIGER 10.4 boot drive – installed Eclipse – it ran – installed MyEclipse – it ran – pointed at my project workspace and realized… DUDE!… you need to copy the extra java jar files needed to compile into your /Library/Java/Extensions folder.

Miraculously, at that point everything stopped working. Of course I started scratching my head as this very batch of jar files WAS working with TIGER before I attempted to upgrade to LEOPARD.

So, I pulled all of the jars out of that folder – low and behold MyEclipse launched with no problem. A list of the files which I did not re-include is below. I stopped adding things back when my project compiled and I could run XDoclet with no errors. I suppose it’d be REALLY cool if I discovered which of the below was the real culprit.

gnujaxp.jar
itext-2.0.6.jar
saxon8.jar
xalan.jar
xercesImpl.jar
xml-apis.jar

OK – life is good again – and, yes, Eclipse/MyEclipse DOES run on Leopard.

Best Regads,

Lance Drake

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