[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: ganymede crashes on start

[Nick Boldt <codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I do have firefox 3 on my system - but it's not the default browser, not 
> installed in a default location and Ganymede still crashes (even when 
> firefox isn't running)

I have FF3 on my linux distro (AntiX 7) and don't have problems starting 
Eclipse (it's in /opt/firefox3, so it's not "installed" as such). I 
generally use Sun 6.0 as my jdk of choice.

I did however manage to corrupt my workspace last week while trying to 
install/update new plugins. The only fix there was to:

shut down eclipse
delete my workspace/.metadata/ folder
restart eclipse
Import > Existing projects from the workspace/ folder into the 
workspace/ folder
recreate working sets
import other settings (like java formatting)
reset other settings that can't be imported (eg., mylyn config)
recreate my usual perspectives

A PITA, to be sure. But it got me back in biz.

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Nick Boldt :: Release Engineer, IBM Toronto Lab
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