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Bug 315985

Summary:	--launcher.openFile does not work on Linux without running instance
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Anton Leherbauer <aleherb+eclipse>
Component:	Launcher	Assignee:	Project Inbox <equinox.launcher-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	aniefer, pwebster, swhite-eclipsebugs, tjwatson
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description Anton Leherbauer

2010-06-07 09:32:51 EDT

3.6 RC2

When I try to open a file using 

> eclipse /tmp/testFile.txt
or 
> eclipse --launcher.openFile /tmp/testFile.txt

Eclipse comes up, but no file is opened.
When I try the same command line a second time, still nothing happens.

If I launch eclipse normally with

> eclipse&

and then open a file using

> eclipse /tmp/testFile.txt

It works as expected.

Host OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)
GTK: gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4

Comment 1 Andrew Niefer

2010-06-14 16:40:39 EDT

This works for me

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2010-11-02 16:40:58 EDT

Have not been able to reproduce.  Is this still causing you issues.  If so please reopen.

Comment 3 Anton Leherbauer

2010-11-03 07:19:30 EDT

This still does not work for me, tried also 3.6.1 with the same result.
But it seems I am the only one.

Comment 4 Stephen White

2010-11-25 08:55:34 EST

It is possible that bug 315985 is the same issue as this, if for some reason Eclipse isn't finding the Java shared library on your system and is launching Java using the 'exec' method rather than JNI.  If that is the case then you may be able to work around the problem by changing the way you specify which JVM to use when launching Eclipse.

Comment 5 Stephen White

2010-11-25 08:56:15 EST

Sorry, wrong bug number.  I meant bug 331122.