[Mork]

Hi,

I’ve installed Eclipse 3.1.1 and MyEclipse 4.0.3 successfully under Linspire Linux. All works fine as root user.

However (this is only my second day as a “Linux person” <g>), as a non-root user, starting Eclipse, I get messages like the one below.

I’ve made all the permissions in the Java directory, Eclipse directory and the MyEclipse directory “wide open”, but there seems to maybe be a process error.

Is there anything somebody can tell me about why this might be happening?

Thanks very very much in advance.

— M

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-11-18 15:54:33.420
!MESSAGE Error reading configuration: /usr/share/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager/.fileTableLock (Permission denied)
!STACK 0
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager/.fileTableLock (Permission denied)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.Locker_JavaNio.lock(Locker_JavaNio.java:34)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.FileManager.lock(FileManager.java:361)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.FileManager.open(FileManager.java:658)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseAdaptor.initFileManager(EclipseAdaptor.java:818)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseAdaptor.initialize(EclipseAdaptor.java:139)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:128)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:106)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.createFramework(OSGi.java:90)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.<init>(OSGi.java:31)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:272)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:159)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:334)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:278)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:973)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:948)

[Scott Anderson]

I’d recommend installing Eclipse / MyEclipse as the user that will be running it to avoid such problems. From the error, I think you’ll find that /usr/share/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager/.fileTableLock is not writable by the user you’re using to run Eclipse.

[Mork]

Thanks Scott.

I’ll investigate further.

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