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Created attachment 275504 [details] Installer crash report I am currently using Eclipse Mars on Mac OS X 10.7.5 and want to upgrade to Eclipse Photon. However, when I tried to start the Installer, it crashed immediately on launch. I have attached the crash report I got as a txt file.
(In reply to Björn Schönrock from comment #0) > Created attachment 275504 [details] > Installer crash report > > when I tried to start the Installer, it crashed > immediately on launch. I have attached the crash report I got as a txt file. Can you point to the link that you used to get the installer? Is there anything in the .log?
One word of advice too. It seems that the Mac often "randomizes" file locations in the downloads folder. Get the latest installer from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Unpack it somewhere other than your downloads folder. And report back...
As far as I know it's this one: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/oomph/epp/photon/R/eclipse-inst-mac64.tar.gz&mirror_id=17 I wouldn't know where to find a .log as it was the Installer that crashed and not Eclipse itself.
(In reply to Björn Schönrock from comment #3) > As far as I know it's this one: > https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/oomph/epp/photon/R/eclipse-inst-mac64.tar.gz&mirror_id=17 > > I wouldn't know where to find a .log as it was the Installer that crashed > and not Eclipse itself. The installer is built on Eclipse :-).
Unpacking outside of download folder makes no difference.
Well, where should I find a .log then?
(In reply to Björn Schönrock from comment #6) > Well, where should I find a .log then? There should be a workspace and in there .metadata/.log
No, there is no workspace. If there was something to log, the log will be in the configuration folder nested in the *.App folder. Which version of Java do you have installed?
I have JDK 1.8.0_161 installed.
If there is a log (it might have crashed to early even for that) it will be in EclipseInstaller.app/Contents/Eclipse/configuration/*.log You could also try to run the following from the command line to get more clues how far its getting before the crash: EclipseInstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse-inst -debug -consolelog You could also try to download a package directly from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ But that's likely to crash the same way as the installer.
Tried the Terminal thing, only thing it says is "Illegal instruction: 4"
That makes it sound like it's not getting very far at all! Likely never even launching the actual Java process but rather dying in the native executable itself before that. I suppose it's possible but highly unlikely that the download from the specific mirror itself is corrupt. Have you tried one of the prepackaged downloads? The native executable it uses is identical so is likely to have the same problem...
I tried https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/photon/R/eclipse-java-photon-R-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.dmg and I can't even download it ("can't open file"). I've also tried downloading other mirrors, but same result.
So how are we going to solve this?
(In reply to Björn Schönrock from comment #14) > So how are we going to solve this? We don't :-/ See bug 517336. Upgrade to a newer OS X. OS X 10.7.5 is not supported anymore by Eclipse >= Oxygen. For Oxygen you might get away with replacing the launcher by the one from Neon.3; but for Photon or newer that'll definitely not work anymore because other native libraries besides the launcher have been built against newer OS X versions.
Does Oxygen support Java 10? How do I replace that launcher?
(above questions still remain) Also, is it in any way possible to run Eclipse Photon on OS X 10.9.5? I am planning to upgrade to that version. I don't want to upgrade to 10.11 (at least for now) because from what I've heard some MacBooks seem to run much slower on 10.11 / 10.12 and newer.
Anyone? ^
I installed a new virtual box with Sierra and we now package the installer as a DMG. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/oomph/products/eclipse-inst-mac64.dmg This works fine for me. But definitely the newer installers and the lataest Eclipse do not run on older versions of the Mac because of missing native GTK libraries.
