[Greg Lloyd]

I just got a MacBook Pro and instead of going through the usual process of installing 20 different combinations of eclipse and MyEclipse I just want to ask, What versions of Eclipse and MyEclipse do I need to install on my Intel Mac?

Thank You.

[Riyad Kalla]

Eclipse 3.2 latest RC (I think it’s RC5) and MyEclipse 5.0M1 that just came out like 2 days ago. This is our first milestone of a major release so if you run into bugs, please report them. Also this is not feature complete, M2 will be feature complete and will have signifigantly more features than M1.

[gregware]

I just had my new MacBook (not pro) installed, and got Eclipse up & running.
Next step was MyEclipse install, with 5.0M1 (successfull).

My Mac freezes at Eclipse Startup. Only the mouse moves (rainbow cursor).
It doesn’t accept any further connection (even ssh), and I have to perform a hard-reboot.

The last thing I see during progress is the “loading myeclipse core” line (this is not the exact label, but I obviously I can’t get any screenshot…).

My setup is :
macBook 1.83 – 1Gb RAM
Last auto update – OS X (10.4.6)
Last auto – Java Update (1.5.0-06)
Eclipse, MyEclise and my home dir are not on the boot volume, but on the same drive.

Do you need any log file ?
Do you have any idea ?

[Riyad Kalla]

greg,
Yes please check the log file <workspace>\.metadata\.log, you can erase it, then restart MyEclipse (use Activity Mon to kill the process instead of reboot if you can, or keep a terminal open and kill -9 the process). After starting back up, check the new .log file see if there is anything interesting in it. ALso make sure you are using a new workspace and not an existing one (-data command line argument to force a new one).

[gregware]

I just cleaned my all Eclipse stuff (clear, re-install).
MyEclipse and Eclipse now run if I use the old workspace directory (moved from my old iBook).
It still crashes if I try to create a new one from scratch.

I can’t kill the java/eclipse process for I can’t type anything.
Even my ssh connections (opened before firing Eclipse) are frozen.

[Riyad Kalla]

… very odd I’ve never seen this. I’ve actually never crashed my MBP yet. Did you find anything in your log?

[gregware]

The log was not even created, I only have a .ini file in my workspace…
I am checking authorizations on the 2nd volume.

I’m trying this new realease, with my old workspace.
It seems pretty fast on Intel !!!
I had given up using my iBookG4 and Eclipse, but I think “airplane coding time” is back 🙂 !

[Riyad Kalla]

hah, glad to hear the new macbook is working out. I like mine too although I just sent it back yesterday for the heat/whine/sleep issues that effected the very first ones (I ordered it an hour after the Keynote). I hope it comes back happy.

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