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Bug 368184

Summary: Eclipse restarts in a loop when I specify -clean option
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mauro Molinari <mauromol>
Component: RuntimeAssignee: platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen, tjwatson
Version: 3.7.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-01-09 12:11:50 EST
Created attachment 209220 [details]
The log produced by Eclipse when starting.

If I add the "-clean" command line option, my Eclipse IDE now restarts in a loop repeatedly before asking for the workspace location and before showing the loading progress bar. I see the splash screen disappear and appear again shortly after, again and again.

I'm attaching a log obtained by using -consoleLog and -debug command line switches and redirecting the output to a TXT file. I hope some information in there can be useful to track down the problem.

I have no problem to run Eclipse if I remove the -clean option. And I didn't have problem to install plugins with the update manager so far.

I remember this behaviour also happened to a co-worker of mine some time ago (with Eclipse 3.6 I think).

NOTE about the attached log: this is the first "iteration" of the log. The complete log (obtained before I killed Eclipse through program manager) is a repetition of the attached one.
Comment 1 Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-01-09 12:13:53 EST
Created attachment 209222 [details]
Correct extract from the log

Sorry, the previous attachment was the full log, indeed. This one is an extract containing the first "iteration".
Comment 2 Thomas Watson CLA 2012-01-09 13:44:17 EST
Perhaps a duplicate of bug 365722.  Do you know if you have the framework extension org.codehaus.groovy.frameworkadapter installed?
Comment 3 Thomas Watson CLA 2012-01-09 13:46:22 EST
From your log ...

Loading extension: reference:file:org.codehaus.groovy.frameworkadapter_2.6.1.xx-20120107-0800-e37.jar

Indicates that you do have org.codehaus.groovy.frameworkadapter installed.  I suspect this is a similar case as bug 365722.  I am going to duplicate this bug to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 365722 ***
Comment 4 Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-01-10 02:15:36 EST
Thank you Thomas and sorry for the duplicate. I searched for similar bugs in the Eclipse Platform category and didn't find any :-(