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Bug 338302

Summary:	Eclipse.ini ignored on Mac with case-sensitive file system
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Ben Strawson <ben.strawson+eclipse>
Component:	Launcher	Assignee:	Project Inbox <equinox.launcher-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal, remy.suen
Version:	3.6.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Ben Strawson

2011-02-26 06:19:22 EST

Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

I run Eclipse on a Mac with a case-sensitive filesystem. When I installed Helios, the eclipse.ini file was name "Eclipse.ini" (upper-case 'E'). However, after recently updating the file is being ignored and I couldn't start Eclipse (out of memory). I renamed the file to 'eclipse.ini' (lower-case 'E') and it now works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a Mac with case-sensitive file system option enabled. Suggestion: perhaps create a virtual disk on your normal disk with this option enabled since most Macs have case-insensitive file systems.
2. Ensure Eclipse.ini is named with upper-case 'E', as it was in the original Helios distribution.
3. Update with the latest updates.
4. Try to run Eclipse. Likely it will run out of memory as the default JVM allocation is 128m. I have a number of plugins installed that of course will use more memory than a default install.

Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2011-02-28 09:28:47 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 338310 ***