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Bug 341665

Summary:	I cannot update Eclipse because it claims that the default repository is not valid.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Missing name <orehmane>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal, shining366
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Missing name

2011-04-01 14:47:49 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

It gives me these error messages regarding repositories:

Some sites could not be found.  See the error log for more detail.
Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios.
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios is not a valid repository location.
Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6.
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6 is not a valid repository location.
Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios.
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios is not a valid repository location.
Unable to read repository at http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.6.
http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.6 is not a valid repository location.

Is something wrong with Eclipse, or the repositories, or have I messed something up?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check for update
2. Eclipse fails to update and gives the above error.

Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2011-04-01 15:23:29 EDT

Are you behind a firewall / proxy?

Comment 2 Missing name

2011-04-01 15:35:13 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you behind a firewall / proxy?

It finds other repositories, so it doesn't seem to be a firewall problem.

Comment 3 shining366

2011-04-15 12:18:40 EDT

I have the same problem.

The event details:
java.io.IOException: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios is not a valid repository location.
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(CompositeMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:113)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.factoryLoad(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:57)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:746)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:651)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:96)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92)
at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.doLoad(LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.java:115)
at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.runModal(LoadMetadataRepositoryJob.java:100)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.sdk.PreloadingRepositoryHandler$2.runModal(PreloadingRepositoryHandler.java:82)
at org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations.ProvisioningJob.run(ProvisioningJob.java:177)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)

Session data:
eclipse.buildId=M20100909-0800
java.version=1.6.0_16
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=zh_CN
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

Comment 4 shining366

2011-04-15 12:59:57 EDT

I found where the problem is. I'm here in China, and I can't access http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/eclipse/releases/helios/, where http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios/compositeContent.jar is redirected to, because our government has blocked the access to http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/*

So please change a repository to help us developers in China. Thank you.

Comment 5 shining366

2011-04-15 20:47:08 EDT

I find a workaround: use http://mirror.neu.edu.cn/eclipse/releases/helios/ instead of http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios

Comment 6 Pascal Rapicault

2011-06-11 00:14:02 EDT

There has been issue where ppl were redirected to invalid mirrors.