Bug 76625 - [ErrorHandling] [WorkbenchLauncher] Give a hint how to recover from "Workspace cannot be locked"
Summary: [ErrorHandling] [WorkbenchLauncher] Give a hint how to recover from "Workspac...
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 80734
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
QA Contact: Susan McCourt CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-10-20 00:11 EDT by Ralf Hauser CLA
Modified: 2013-11-18 11:49 EST (History)
2 users (show)

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workSpaceCannotBeLocked.png (11.57 KB, image/png)
2004-10-20 00:16 EDT, Ralf Hauser CLA 		no flags Details
workspaceLocked_v3.3_080823.png (19.47 KB, image/png)
2008-08-23 01:33 EDT, Ralf Hauser CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Ralf Hauser CLA 2004-10-20 00:11:29 EDT 
My eclipse just crashed an when trying to start it again, I get the error
message attached.
Comment 1 Ralf Hauser CLA 2004-10-20 00:16:23 EDT 
Created attachment 15292 [details]
workSpaceCannotBeLocked.png

please provide a text how to recover from this or at least a link to some
explanatory text?
While not visible on the screen, with alt-ctrl-del, I noticed that another
instance of eclipse was still running and once I killed it, I could continue to
work.
Comment 2 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2004-10-22 10:18:53 EDT 
Do you have a suggestion?  Sometimes giving more specific information about why
the problem has occured causes the user to assume a certain scenario, when in
actual fact we don't know precisely why this is occuring and may be misleading.
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2007-01-02 11:15:14 EST 
Reassigning bugs to reflect changes in ownership.
Comment 4 Krzysztof Daniel CLA 2008-04-24 03:56:52 EDT 
ping.

I think this is no longer issue because since eclipse 3.3 (I think) there is no separate process for locking workspace... I am not sure what was the change exactly.
Comment 5 Kim Horne CLA 2008-04-24 08:21:25 EDT 
Agreed.  Marking as WONTFIX.
Comment 6 Ralf Hauser CLA 2008-08-23 01:30:16 EDT 
unfortunately, still happens with v3.3
Comment 7 Ralf Hauser CLA 2008-08-23 01:33:40 EDT 
Created attachment 110737 [details]
workspaceLocked_v3.3_080823.png

slightly different text, killing the hanging eclipse process didn't help this time
Comment 8 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-09 19:04:19 EDT 
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Comment 9 Krzysztof Daniel CLA 2009-07-13 05:37:18 EDT 
Ralf, does this issue still happens on 3.4 or 3.5?
Comment 10 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2013-11-18 11:47:58 EST 
This looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=80734
Comment 11 Paul Webster CLA 2013-11-18 11:49:47 EST 

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