[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Macintosh OS X and Help Server - NEWBIE

[Edward Cheadle <edward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

J Michael Dean wrote:

> Apologize for naive nature of post but have spent 6 hours without success.
>  I have installed Eclipse
> (new user times 24 hours) on Panther, but none of the help services work.
> Indicates that the help
> server was unable to start.
> 
> Do I need to have Tomcat running in order for Eclipse to have help
> facilities?  Cannot find this
> documented.
> 
> My OS is up to date, etc.
> 
> Assistance is appreciated.  Even bought a couple books but they imply that
> help just .... helps.
> 
> - Mike

I am also a NEWBIE, but I am on linux.  The error message I get is:
 " An exception occurs while launching help. Refer to the log file for help"
I learned that the log file is not kept in the usual place for SuSE 9.1 so I
checked around and found a log file in the configuration folder inside the
eclipse directory.  

The log file reads thusly:

!SESSION Jul 05, 2004 17:11:28.223
---------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I200406251208
java.version=1.4.2_03
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi Jul 05, 2004 17:11:28.224
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2717)
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2616)
        at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:2587)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Display.java:709)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Display.java:694)
        at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.<init>(Device.java:113)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:402)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:398)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:278)
        at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:153)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.createDisplay
(IDEApplication.java:122)
        at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:72)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run
(PlatformActivator.java:335)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:273)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:129)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.
invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:183)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
        at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)

I do not understand yet what I am reading, but if this is the correct log
file, it says there are no more handles.   As I am just learning, I have no
idea if this is the problem or something else. Many other things are
working so I don't think it is a permissions issue, but I don't know.

If you find out let me know, if I figure it out, I will email you.

Edward