[GStretton]

I was using a trial version of MyEclipse and suddenly things stopped working. So, I restarted Eclipse (many times) always getting the following error messge:

Unable to read workbench state. Workbench UI layout will be reset.

That is followed by another message box:
Unable to recreate perspective
Reason:
Unable to recreate perspective.

Then Eclipse comes up on my project with no perspectives and I can only create a Java perspective. I was in a MyEclipse perspective when I last successfully used Eclipse.

It is my belief the problem is happening because my trial period with MyEclipse finished and MyEclipse has messed my Eclipse – not that I received ANY warnings of message concerning the demise.

So, now I have joined MyEclipse and have an access code but no where to enter it. MyEclipse does not show up on the menu bar, or in preferences. It does show up in the about box. I can only open preferences once per session.

I would appreciate any help to get me going again.

George

– System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Eclipse version: 2.1.2
Eclipse build id: 200311030802
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): n
If not, was it upgraded to its current version using the update manager? y
Other installed external plugins: com.objfac.xmleditor_0.2.8
Number of plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory that begin with org.eclipse.pde.*: 7
MyEclipse version: 2.6.200
Eclipse JDK version: 200312091200-2.7-RC1
Application Server JDK version: 1.4
Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file? cannot find a log file under Eclipse

– Message Body ——————————-

[Riyad Kalla]

George,
MyEclipse won’t kill off Eclipse when the trial runs out, that would be completely out of line on our part. It will simply nag you about registering. As far as what happened, it sounds like things got really out of whack, so lets see if we can help get you up and running…

Can you close Eclipse, find the folder, <eclipse install>\workbench\.metadata\.config, and move it somewhere, like your desktop, then try and restart Eclipse? Hopefully clearing out any damaged saved state of the workbench will allow it to reinitialize itself. Let me know if that doesn’t work and we can try other things.

Also if that doesn’t work, as a next step, please open teh file <eclipse install>\workbench\.metadata\.log and copy-paste the last 2 entries starting with !SESSION———- into here for us to look at.

[GStretton]

Done ask requested.

Upon restarting Eclipse, a message said “Completing Install”.
Then another message said it failed to start and to look in the log file.

The log file says:

!SESSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Feb 27, 2004 09:33:07.156
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Application not found: org.eclipse.update.core.reconciler.
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:856)
    at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:461)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:291)
    at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:747)
    at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:583)

Before I renamed .config I had look in the .log file. It had many errors, here is sample.

!SESSION Nov 18, 2003 14:26:41.968 ---------------------------------------------
java.version=1.3.1_06
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -install file:C:/Eclipse/
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 567 Nov 18, 2003 14:26:41.968
!MESSAGE Problems occurred while restoring the workspace.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.core.resources 4 567 Nov 18, 2003 14:26:41.968
!MESSAGE The project description file (.project) for CE jsp is missing.  This file contains important information about the project.  The project will not function properly until this file is restored.
!SESSION Nov 18, 2003 16:27:22.609 ---------------------------------------------
java.version=1.3.1_06
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -install file:C:/Eclipse/
!ENTRY org.eclipse.jdt.core 4 969 Nov 18, 2003 16:27:22.609
!MESSAGE CE does not exist.
...
ENTRY org.eclipse.jdt.core 4 969 Nov 18, 2003 16:29:51.390
!MESSAGE CE does not exist.
!SESSION Feb 02, 2004 10:01:50.812 ---------------------------------------------
java.version=1.3.1_01
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_CA
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -install file:C:/Eclipse/
!ENTRY org.eclipse.jdt.ui 4 0 Feb 02, 2004 10:01:50.812
!MESSAGE See details
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.core.resources 4 273 Feb 02, 2004 10:01:50.828
!MESSAGE Could not delete: P:\Canaveral_mainline\wip\src.
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 2 Feb 02, 2004 10:38:13.453
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.resources".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at de.bb.bje.eclipse.editors.JspMultiPageEditor.invalidate(Unknown Source)
    at de.bb.bje.eclipse.BejyPlugin.invalidateCache(Unknown Source)
    at de.bb.bje.eclipse.IncrementalJspBuilder.fullBuild(Unknown Source)
    at de.bb.bje.eclipse.IncrementalJspBuilder.build(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:427)
... and it goes on with many more errors like resource not found and null pointer.

Perhaps its time to redo my Eclipse install.

[GStretton]

I removed my <EclipseInstallDir>/workspace folder. Eclipse then came up like new and I imported my project successfully. All seems to be fine now. MyEclipse disappeared because the problem resulted in plugins not be loaded. At least this inspired me to finally subscribe to MyEclipse.

Thanks for the help and direction in solving the problem.

[Riyad Kalla]

I’m glad it is working now, thank you for being so vigilant about trying different approaching to getting things working.

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