[Peter Strotmann]

Hi,

I just installed myEclipse ide and try to get somewhat familiar with it. But no helpfunction works. If I click some, I get a processing message and nothing happens.

I think you agree, that an ide with no help function at all is not that worthful,

peter

[Peter Strotmann]

Hi,

this reply is made by myself to make my post some more precise.

I click help/welcome/overview

and the Overview screen displays 🙂

Now that I think the link ‘MyEclipse User Interface Tools’ should contain some useful information I click it .

All I see is a processing bar moving forward and when it is ready I get an empty frame titled ‘Help – Eclipse SDK’

Even If I click ‘Help/Help Contents’ I get the same empty frame. The same click in pure/native eclipse leads me to the help menue.

It would be nice to get all the useful information, that had been enterered with a lot of effort by the myEclipse folks.

Peter

[Loyal Water]

If you go to Help > Help contents > MyEclipse Learning Center > Overview > User Interface Development tools, are you able to see the window that shows up?

Can you go to MyEclispe > Installation Summary > Installation Details and paste the information here for me.

[Peter Strotmann]

Hi Nipun,

I cannot go beyond Help > Help contents, if I do so I get the processing bar and after this the empty transparent frame entitled ‘Help – Eclipse SDK’, as I posted before.

Here is the paste from MyEclispe > Installation Summary > Installation Details:

*** Date:
Dienstag, 8. Juli 2008 13.41 Uhr CEST

** System properties:
OS=Linux
OS version=2.6.22-14-generic
Java version=1.6.0_03

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 6.5.0 GA
Build id: 6.5.0-GA-20080609

*** Eclipse details:
Eclipse SDK

Version: 3.3.2
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-_19UEl7Ezk_gXF1kouft
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-7M7J7LB-u3aphGW6o3_VmiVfGXWO
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework

Version: 3.3.2.v20080129
Build id: 20080221-1602

Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-8y8eE9UEUWI6qujeED0xT7bc
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.3.2.r33x_r20080129-7o7jE7_EDhYDiyVEnjb1pFd7ZGD7
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-7N7M5DQVIA_6oJsEFkEL
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse startup command=-os
linux
-ws
gtk
-arch
x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher
/opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/eclipse
-name
Eclipse
–launcher.library
/opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.3.R33x_v20080118/eclipse_1023.so
-startup
/opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-exitdata
170000
-vm
/opt/jre1.6.0_03/bin/java

Peter

[Loyal Water]

Can you go to <workspace>/.metadata/.log file and check if any exceptions is being recorded.

[Peter Strotmann]

Hi Nipun

here’s the contents of <workspace>/.metadata/.log file after trying help>help contents:

!SESSION 2008-07-09 08:48:51.880 ———————————————–
eclipse.buildId=M20080221-1800
java.version=1.6.0_03
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=de_DE
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 2 0 2008-07-09 08:49:02.466
!MESSAGE Warnings while parsing the commands from the ‘org.eclipse.ui.commands’ and ‘org.eclipse.ui.actionDefinitions’ extension points.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 2 0 2008-07-09 08:49:02.466
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category: plug-in=’org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.ui’, id=’org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.command.RunGroovyConsole’, categoryId=’org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.editor.category.rundebug’
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 2 0 2008-07-09 08:49:02.466
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category: plug-in=’org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.ui’, id=’org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.debug.ui.testShortcut.debug’, categoryId=’org.eclipse.debug.ui.category.debug’

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:13.934
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/jsp/struts_bean_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:13.992
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/jsp/struts_html_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.030
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/jsp/jsf_f_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.075
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/jsp/struts_logic_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.133
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/jsp/jsf_h_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.196
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/jsp/struts_tiles_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.252
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/html/htmlform_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.358
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/html/javascript_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.418
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/html/html_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.470
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/html/css_snippets.xml

!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards 1 0 2008-07-09 08:49:14.529
!MESSAGE Installed snippet library: /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.wizards_6.5.0.zmyeclipse650200806/snippets/html/forms_lists_snippets.xml

peter
Dortmund, Germany

[Loyal Water]

Can you check if the Web Browser from the Toolbar works. You can navigate to something like http://www.google.com and check if it opens up.

[Peter Strotmann]

Hi Nipun

A click on the browser from the Toolbar leads to the following crash:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/opt/jre1.6.0_03/bin/java
-Xms128M
-Xmx512M
-XX:PermSize=64M
-XX:MaxPermSize=128M
-jar /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
–launcher.library /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.3.R33x_v20080118/eclipse_1023.so
-startup /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-exitdata 250002
-vm /opt/jre1.6.0_03/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms128M
-Xmx512M
-XX:PermSize=64M
-XX:MaxPermSize=128M
-jar /opt/eclipse/myEclipse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar

[Peter Strotmann]

Hi Nipun,

sorry for my last post, I clicked the wrong browser shortcut, the tabbed one beside the console tab. The browser shortcut from the toolbar works fine with myeclipseide.com and I’m writing this reply from it.

By the way, could it be a problem of 64-bit architecture. I installed myeclipse on a 32 bit version of ubuntu and eclipse in a virtual machine and help is working fine.

Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Peter,
I was just going to point that out, yes the 64-bit platform is the issue, it’s not tested with MyEclipse nor is the 64-bit VM (if you are using one).

What you might be able to do, so you don’t need the entire VM, is to uncompress 32-bit Sun JRE 1.5.0_11, 32-bit Eclipse “Classic” 3.3 and MyEclipse all to a dir under your home dir somewhere and use all those pieces together.

Sorry for the trouble.

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