346612 – better lock support needed after IDE crash

Bug 346612 - better lock support needed after IDE crash

Summary: better lock support needed after IDE crash

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 80734

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	IDE (show other bugs)
Version:	4.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox
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Reported:	2011-05-20 05:41 EDT by Richard J Moore
Modified:	2011-06-21 16:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Richard J Moore

2011-05-20 05:41:21 EDT

Build Identifier: BETA 0.5.0

If the IDE crashes, for example network connection dies when accessing the IDE remotely under VNC then workspace/.metadata/.lock is not deleted.  On restarting the IDE the popup appears inviting another workspace to be selected as it is assumed that the current is in use. After a crash, this is clearly not the case.

At the very least there should be help from the IDE to inform the user to delete .lock after a crash.

Even better would be for the IDE to give the user the option of overriding the lock when the popup is displayed.

And even better still is for the IDE to detect that is was not shutdown cleanly i.e to detect that no other instance of the IDE is running so it could only have no shut down cleanly.

Richard

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start the IDE
2.kill the IDE  (eg log off)
3.start the IDE

Comment 1 Prakash Rangaraj

2011-05-20 06:05:39 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> Build Identifier: BETA 0.5.0

  What product are you using?

Comment 2 Prakash Rangaraj

2011-06-03 02:05:15 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Build Identifier: BETA 0.5.0
> 
>   What product are you using?

    Please reopen if you could reproduce it on Eclipse SDK

Comment 3 Richard J Moore

2011-06-09 10:16:57 EDT

The product I am using the the Linux on Power SDK.

Comment 4 Oleg Besedin

2011-06-21 16:25:41 EDT

I think lock behavior was changed around Eclipse 3.3. It should be rather hard to get into situation where a crash would prevent workspace lock from being released. At least that's what I see on Windows . 

I was not able to reproduce the error state on Windows 7.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 80734 ***