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Bug 349162

Summary: Help->About->Installation details broken
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Ang Chin Huat <chinhuat>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: akurtakov, pascal
Version: 3.6.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: other   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Description Ang Chin Huat CLA 2011-06-12 22:27:47 EDT 
Build Identifier: Build id: 20100917-0705

Windows Server 2008, 64-bit, Service PAck 2
Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
Version: Helios Service Release 1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Eclipse CPP
2. Open Help> About Eclipse, Installation Details
3. Error message shows up "Multiple problems have occurred, Fetching children of _SELF_"
Comment 1 Ang Chin Huat CLA 2011-06-12 22:35:37 EDT 
Created attachment 197870 [details]
Workspace .log file

Started from clean workspace
Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2011-06-12 23:15:36 EDT 
From the errors being logged it looks like some of the files are not readable nor writable. Could you please indicate is the eclipse install is marked read only or the drive where it is executed is somewhat special?

C:\altera\11.0_B157_B204_acds\nios2eds\bin\eclipse_nios2\p2\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine\profileRegistry\epp.package.cpp.profile\
Comment 3 Ang Chin Huat CLA 2011-06-14 01:58:43 EDT 
This folder appears to be writable by admin only:

C:\altera\11.0_B157_B204_acds\nios2eds\bin\eclipse_nios2\p2\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine\profileRegistry\epp.package.cpp.profile\

I'm using an installer that creates/copies files/subdirectories with administrator privilege to copy Eclipse.

I think you should be able to reproduce this by unzipping eclipse zip file as administrator, and make sure the p2 folder is writable by admin only.
Comment 4 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2011-06-17 07:25:02 EDT 
All I have with me is a mac on which I tried the specific package but version SR2 and it works. 
I'm wondering if it is not the installer step you mention that cause pbs. Could you please try downloading the original package (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/helios/SR2/eclipse-cpp-helios-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip), unzip, make it read only and see if it still occurs. Thx.
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-10-23 01:52:54 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 6 Alexander Kurtakov CLA 2019-10-23 02:06:19 EDT 
Works for me on Fedora and there haven't been any other similar complains. Closing. Please reopen if it's still and issue for you.