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Bug 428270

Summary: [About] View Error Log Not Working
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: David E. Narvaez <david.narvaez>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: RESOLVED NOT_ECLIPSE QA Contact: Paul Webster <pwebster>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 4.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description David E. Narvaez CLA 2014-02-15 18:54:59 EST 
When I go to 

Help -> About Eclipse SDK

then I click on Installation Details, I go to the Configuration tab, and I click the View Error Log at the bottom, nothing happens, but the console displays

wine: cannot find '/home/david/eclipse/file:/home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/log'

every time I click the button.
Comment 1 Wojciech Sudol CLA 2014-02-17 03:32:27 EST 
Does the log file really exist? Do you run eclipse using wine? What is your Linux distribution and version?
Comment 2 David E. Narvaez CLA 2014-02-17 11:22:38 EST 
(In reply to Wojciech Sudol from comment #1)
> Does the log file really exist? Do you run eclipse using wine? What is your
> Linux distribution and version?

The error log is at /home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.log, I do not use wine to run Eclipse and my Linux distro is Sabayon.
Comment 3 David E. Narvaez CLA 2014-02-17 11:27:57 EST 
(In reply to David E. Narvaez from comment #2)
> The error log is at /home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.log

The same error log also exists at /home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/log which is part of the location in the error message.
Comment 4 Paul Webster CLA 2014-02-18 05:51:33 EST 
Are you running wine on your system?  What's the configuration?  Please attach the content of your Configuration tab to the bug.

It looks like your system is including your $HOME directory at the beginning of the path.  it should just be file:/home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/log

I can't reproduce it on my linux system, it doesn't prepend anything to the URL

PW
Comment 5 Paul Webster CLA 2014-02-18 06:19:11 EST 
(In reply to David E. Narvaez from comment #2)
> 
> The error log is at /home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.log,
> I do not use wine to run Eclipse and my Linux distro is Sabayon.

Do you have wine at all in you system?

PW
Comment 6 David E. Narvaez CLA 2014-02-18 08:04:43 EST 
Created attachment 240064 [details]
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Comment 7 David E. Narvaez CLA 2014-02-18 08:10:08 EST 
(In reply to Paul Webster from comment #4)
> Are you running wine on your system?  What's the configuration?  Please
> attach the content of your Configuration tab to the bug.

I had Wine installed (not using it to run Eclipse, or anything for that matter). I removed Wine and it fixed the problem.

> It looks like your system is including your $HOME directory at the beginning
> of the path.  it should just be
> file:/home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.
> ui.workbench/log

It was including my CWD.
Comment 8 Paul Webster CLA 2014-02-19 16:06:13 EST 
Any idea why wine was prepending stuff to your CWD?

PW
Comment 9 David E. Narvaez CLA 2014-03-04 01:48:32 EST 
(In reply to Paul Webster from comment #8)
> Any idea why wine was prepending stuff to your CWD?
> 
> PW

I think it has to do with the default application associated to the file: protocol. For instance, right now it works, but the log shows up in Chromium, while I would like to see it in my default text editor. I haven't been able to find where is that association made. If I try

xdg-open file:/home/david/Documents/RIT/Thesis/Ramsey/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/log

it opens my text editor.