[scottymo]

I am evaluating MyEcplise for a use on a JSF development task. I have Eclipse 3.01 installed, and I downloaded and installed MyEclipse 3.8.2 for Mac yesterday.

When I try to launch Eclipse now, I get the error:

“An error has occurred and cannot be logged:
null”

I never had this error before installing MyEclipse. I’m running Mac OS X version 10.3.6 on a powerbook G4.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

[Riyad Kalla]

Scott,
What is the Build ID of Eclipse you are using? Also is there anything in your log file? (metadata dir\.metadata\.log), and can you get Eclipse running to give me a dump of Help > About > Configuration Details?

[scottymo]

Riyad,

A coworker helped me out, I can at least launch Eclipse now.

During the MyEclipse install, it complained that it couldn’t write to the directory I installed Eclipse in (/Applications/eclipse). I looked at the permissions, and sure enough, that directory was not writable to anybody, so I gave myself write perms on that directory.

Apparently Eclipse does not like this, and refuses to start unless its install directory is read-only. When I changed the directory perms back to read only, it started fine. Seems strange to me, but I guess they have their reasons.

Well now I can start test-driving MyEclipse.

Thanks,
Scott

[scottymo]

And btw, my build ID of Eclipse:

Version: 3.0.1
Build id: 200409161125

[Riyad Kalla]

Hey I’m glad its working.

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