[davidlg]

I have upgraded by uninstalling and reinstalling 3.8.1.

However when I go to preferences in eclipse it still says 2.5.0.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is this the correct way to upgrade?

-David

[Scott Anderson]

David,

You didn’t install 3.8.1 on an Eclipse 2.0 installation did you? The base platform has to be Eclipse 3.0 for 3.8.1 to function properly.

[davidlg]

Nope. I installed on a eclipse 3.0. I meant preferences | myeclipse version still says 2.5.0

Sorry for the confusion.

[Riyad Kalla]

David,
Something is horrifically wrong here, what is the Build ID from the Window > Prefs > MyEclipse page? Do you have any extensions listed under Help > Software Updates > Manage Configs? Do you have any files in your <eclipse install>\links directory? If so, whats inside of the them? (contents)

[davidlg]

The build id is 200307151200
installation root is c:\Program Files\MyEclipse
extensions listed under Manage Configs:
c:\eclipse-3.0
c:\Program Files\MyEclipse\eclipse (this contains 2 subsections:)
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 3.7.101 (seems to be fine)
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 3.8.1 (has problems and is disabled)

in my links dir there is a file called: com.genuitec.eclipse.MyEclipse.link
containing: path=C:\\Program Files\\MyEclipse

It appears that there are problems with my install huh? I am thinking aboub trashing my eclipse install as there are other issues with debugging. However, I hesitate because I don’t want to loose all my configs and code history (local history for the “compare with local history” feature) Do you know how to save that history accross workbenches? I’m tempted to scrap my workbench and rebuild from cvs also…I don’t know what the best path is…any Advise?

[Scott Anderson]

David,

You can keep your old workspace, where all your settings are stored, even if you scrap your Eclipse installation. If you accepted the default and used the “workspace” directory under your Eclipse installation, simply move it somewhere safe then reinstall everything and put it back. Or, when you launch Eclipse just point it to the new workspace location when prompted.

[davidlg]

Ok. I have done that. I installed the latest eclipse in a new location and pointed to the old workbench, installed myeclipse latest and now when I build my projects eclipse crashes everytime the build gets to “Invoking….”something. The message go by too fast to see what is happening. But It only happens after installing the myeclipse plugin. Some of the projects were not even created as a myeclipse project. They might have been a tomcat project however.

Any ideas?

[davidlg]

I take that back. Or part of it. When I clean a previous tomcat project is when it crashes.

Here is the output:
—————————
Eclipse
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JVM terminated. Exit code=1
C:\j2sdk1.4.1_03\bin\java.exe
-Xms256m
-Xmx256m
-cp C:\eclipse-3.0.1\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-os win32
-ws win32
-arch x86
-showsplash C:\eclipse-3.0.1\eclipse.exe -showsplash 600
-exitdata C:\eclipse-3.0.1\eclipse.exe -exitdata df0_3c
-vm C:\j2sdk1.4.1_03\bin\java.exe
-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx256m
-cp C:\eclipse-3.0.1\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
—————————
OK
—————————

[Riyad Kalla]

david,
Try and create a new workspace, and then use File > Import to import the projects from your old workspace. Messy workspace/config files can cause REALLY strange/critical problems with the platform… its like trying to boot Windows XP by overwriting it with a Windows 98 System directory… its not a good mix 😉

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