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Bug 359657

Summary:	Automatic updates not working
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Charles Elliott <elliott.ch>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Charles Elliott

2011-10-02 06:19:48 EDT

Build Identifier: Build id: 20110615-0604

Eclipse constantly posts the following message box:
'Automatic updates download' has encountered a problem.

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=epp.package.java, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
Comparison method violates its general contract!
Comparison method violates its general contract!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Eclipse
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Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-10-02 06:21:11 EDT

I believe this is because of Java 7.

Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault

2011-10-02 10:24:59 EDT

This is indeed caused by Java 7. This has been fixed in Indigo SR1.