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Bug 317799

Summary:	Plugins installed without write access to eclipse folder non functional
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Martin Probst <mail>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Martin Probst

2010-06-24 06:24:24 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

Installing plugins from a user account that does not have write access to the eclipse folder succeeds, the plugin shows up in the installation details list, but the functionality that is supposed to be contributed is not available - i.e. no GUI elements.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Helios, e.g. from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/helios/R/eclipse-jee-helios-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz

2. Untar, move to /Applications, and chown to root:
cd /Applications
tar xzf ~/Downloads/eclipse-jee-helios-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo chown -R root:wheel eclipse

3. Start Eclipse, go to Help->Eclipse Marketplace, and install a plugin (I tried FindBugs and Checkstyle)

4. Restart, observe that About->Installation Details contains the plugin in "Installed Software", but there is no trace of the contributed functionality, e.g. no preference pages, no FindBugs context menu on a Java project, and so on.

The workspace log does not contain any error messages.

There is a directory '.eclipse' created in my home folder, containing a features and plugins folder which in turn contain the expected files from findbugs/checkstyle.

Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2011-06-10 00:16:10 EDT

This is working for me. Please try again with 3.7