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.
>> >
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