[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Cannot Load Visual Editor

[Hal Vaughan <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Rizzo wrote:

> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> Paul Rubin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>>> I finally
>>>> wiped out ~/workspace/.metadata and that did it.  I don't know what was
>>>> there that made the difference.  It did mean re-creating my projects,
>>>> but since I'm still learning and haven't added a ton of settings, and
>>>> the projects were all in different directories (and none in
>>>> ~/workspace), it was acceptable.
>>>>
>>> Didn't think of that, but other people have reported other breakdowns
>>> that were cured by wiping .metadata, so maybe Eclipse occasionally mungs
>>> something there (?).
>>>
>>> Glad you're back up and running.
>> 
>> Thanks.  It's in my "bag of tricks" now.  In the future, if it comes up
>> again, I'll search .metadata first and see if I can figure out what could
>> be the problem.
> 
> Whenever Eclipse has internal errors, the details are logged in
> <workspace>/.metadata/.log - that usually has enough information to
> narrow down the problem, and it certainly can help Googling and posting
> to the newsgroups.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Eric

That does help.

Any idea why the error message dialog box only says, "NullPointerError" and
doesn't give a stacktrace?

Hal