I had the same problem on Windows 7 and after struggling for several hours i had to restore Windows to a previous check point, it worked like a charm. dunno if the problems is an eclipse updates, a plugin updates or a windows update.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Rajeev Dayal <[email protected]> wrote: > As an FYI, this issue is being tracked here: > > http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=5080 > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 07/19/2010 07:44 AM, Magnus wrote: >> > Well, I just found that tar tvfz <eclipse-archive> shows "tomcat/ >> > users" as the owner of the files. >> > >> > I think that this UID corresponds to my "Debian-exim" id. >> > >> > However, I extract the tar files with "tar xvfz". >> > >> > Magnus >> >> OK. I can reproduce what you're seeing. >> >> I cannot explain, even when you install the GPE into the archive, it >> doesn't work. When you install as root, it does (did I get that right?) >> >> One further question (I think the answer to this is "yes") do you delete >> the eclipse directory before installing? That's one of the reasons I use >> update-alternatives. After extracting the archive, I move the directory >> to the specific version: "mv eclipse eclipse-3.6" and use >> update-alternatives to point to that directory. In this way, I can be >> sure of a clean installation, and I also have a backup version in case >> things go sideways. >> >> Anyway, after extracting the archive as "tar xvzf <archive>" the >> directory is owned by root:root, but the ownership of files in that >> hasn't changed (still tomcat/users). >> >> So, I used the following tar command >> tar --owner=root --no-same-owner -vxzf >> /tmp/eclipse-jee-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz >> >> > >> > On Jul 18, 7:12 am, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 07/17/2010 08:23 PM, Magnus wrote: >> >>>> Hi Rajeev! >> >> >> >>>>>> I always installed eclipse as root, i. e. extracting the tar >> archive >> >>>>>> as root into /usr/local/eclipse and changing the ownership of all >> >>>>>> files and folders to root. >> >> >> >>>>> You shouldn't need to change the ownership. If you're really >> extracting >> >>> the >> >>>>> files as root, then they are already owned by root. >> >> >> >>>> No: >> >>>> drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-07-18 05:07 . >> >>>> drwxr-sr-x 12 root root 4096 2010-07-12 19:10 .. >> >>>> drwxrwsr-x 9 Debian-exim users 4096 2010-06-17 17:15 eclipse >> >> >> >> Do you remember the tar command you use to extract the files? I'm >> wondering >> >> if you're preserving the owner specified in the ** archive. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
