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Bug 350873

Summary: Poor error reporting in 'm2e Marketplace'
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Alex Pogrebnyak <alex-pub.eclipse>
Component: m2eAssignee: Project Inbox <m2e.core-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: igor, matthew, thatnitind
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Alex Pogrebnyak CLA 2011-06-30 14:46:42 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

This is related to Bug 350872.

When installation of component from 'm2e Marketplace' fails it only gives you a generic message on top that has a red circle with X in it and a text next to it that says 'Operation details'.

No further explanation is given.

If you select several components to install it is not clear which one causes installation to fail.


Non-standard components:
  Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers    1.4.0.20110615-0550    epp.package.jee 
  null
  Embedded Maven Runtime 3.0.3    1.0.1.201106291304   
org.sonatype.m2e.maven.runtime.3.0.3.feature.group    SONATYPE
  m2e - Maven Integration for Eclipse    1.0.0.201106052308   
org.eclipse.m2e.feature.feature.group    Eclipse.org - m2e
  m2e - slf4j over logback logging (Optional)    1.0.0.201106052308   
org.eclipse.m2e.logback.feature.feature.group    Eclipse.org - m2e
  m2e connector for antlr    0.13.0.20110622-1538   
org.sonatype.m2e.antlr.feature.feature.group    Sonatype, Inc.
  m2e connector for build-helper-maven-plugin    0.13.0.20110622-1538   
org.sonatype.m2e.buildhelper.feature.feature.group    Sonatype, Inc.
  m2e connector for modello    0.13.0.20110622-1538   
org.sonatype.m2e.modello.feature.feature.group    Sonatype, Inc.
  Maven Integration for WTP (Optional)    0.13.0.20110623-0455   
org.maven.ide.eclipse.wtp.feature.feature.group    Sonatype, Inc.
  Plexus Metadata Generation    0.13.0.20110622-1538   
org.sonatype.m2e.plexus.annotations.feature.feature.group    Sonatype, Inc.
  ProjectSet    3.0.0.200905051715    com.csc.dip.projectset.feature.group   
CSC Technologies Deutschland GmbH
  Properties Editor    5.3.5   
jp.gr.java_conf.ussiy.app.propedit.feature.group    Chomakichi
  Workspace Mechanic    0.0.9    com.google.eclipse.mechanic.feature.group   
Google, Inc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Window->Preferences->Maven->Discovery
2.Open Catalog
3.Check 'm2e-cvs'
4.Finish
>>BUG > X Operation Details is displayed on top with no explanation
Comment 1 Matthew Piggott CLA 2011-06-30 14:55:26 EDT 
I believe the whole error message is present and you can scroll (not intuitive) its just too big to be shown in the header.  We could just show "installation failed, see log for details" instead of the actual error.
Comment 2 Alex Pogrebnyak CLA 2011-06-30 14:59:21 EDT 
Created attachment 198926 [details]
Error message

Added jpeg with error message
Comment 3 Alex Pogrebnyak CLA 2011-06-30 15:01:09 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I believe the whole error message is present and you can scroll (not intuitive)
> its just too big to be shown in the header.  We could just show "installation
> failed, see log for details" instead of the actual error.

No, there is nothing to scroll.
I've attached an image

Also, there is no message in the 'Error Log' view.
Comment 4 Matthew Piggott CLA 2011-06-30 15:03:27 EDT 
I haven't tried this one, but often you can click and use the down arrow
Comment 5 Alex Pogrebnyak CLA 2011-06-30 15:26:24 EDT 
(In reply to comment #4)
> I haven't tried this one, but often you can click and use the down arrow

I've tried click+down arrow in several places on this dialog, still it would not reveal the error log. :(
Comment 6 Igor Fedorenko CLA 2011-08-03 22:40:39 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 344592 ***
Comment 7 Denis Roy CLA 2021-04-19 13:22:17 EDT 
Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/