[platform-dev] Weird initialization problem

[Sergey Prigogin <eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm investigating a mysterious Eclipse startup problem https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506113 that manifests itself as NPEs in different places but all pointing to getDefault() method of some plugin returning null.

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this problem myself although it happens quite regularly to some users. I'm looking for tracing options or code instrumentation that would help me understand where the initialization sequence breaks.

I tried to use the following tracing options but unfortunately they write to stdout that is difficult to correlate with exceptions written to the Eclipse error log.

# Turn on general debugging for org.eclipse.osgi
org.eclipse.osgi/debug=true
# Prints out timing information for bundle activation
org.eclipse.osgi/debug/bundleTime=true

Looking for bright ideas.

-sergey