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Bug 56708

Summary: Gradual build up of "WAITING: Running Operation" entries in Progress view
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ian Brown <ian>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: blizzy-keyword-eclipse_bugs.ba215a
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Ian Brown CLA 2004-03-30 04:47:33 EST 
In build M8, I have been building a workspace for a multi-project development. 
This is basically a recreation of what I've done with previous milestone 
builds, but I always start afresh with an empty workspace for a new release.

Anyway, I now have all of my projects checked out from CVS, and am currently 
going round resolving the inter-dependencies.

Whilst doing this, the Progress view shows the build activities etc. going on.

For each rebuild, however, a "WAITING: Running Operation" task is left in the 
Progress view (1 per build that takes place), and eventually Eclipse stops 
doing rebuilds. During the test I am running at the moment, this occurs after 
43 items are in the Progress view list - although I have also seen it happen 
when there are as few at 10 entries in the list.

This is really killing the usability of M8 as once these items are in the 
list, they never disappear and even right-click/Cancel does not remove them.

I (personally) would class this as a very high priority issue and would hope 
that it can be resolved in an integration build soon!

My colleagues have reported the failure to rebuild in other situations, too, 
so it might not be related to the same problem - or the problem may be down to 
the building itself not completing all tasks...
Comment 1 Ian Brown CLA 2004-04-18 11:28:32 EDT 
My continuing observation of this is that for every visit I make to a 
project's properties when I change a build dependency (add/remove a dependent 
project or external library), then I get one of these Progress view items left 
lying around.

After a certain number of these has built up, Eclipse will perform no further 
builds - although this may be a seperate issue (see issue 57656)
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2004-07-14 15:25:32 EDT 
Unless you are still seeing this in the 3.0 final release, I will assume this is
a duplicate of bug 57656.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57656 ***