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Warning: this is a real mind-bender. I have been unable to consistently reproduce this bug, but it happens often and is extremely annoying. Please bear with me: I've got a large project here (many many thousands of files). Occasionally, after saving a source file or on building, my "Problems" list gets very strange - everything is displayed properly except for the description text itself. I've got all the columns: but only the icons, "Resource", "In Folder" and "Location" have anything in them. The "Description" column is there, but there's no text. Anywhere. It gets more interesting, as hovering over the problematic line in the java editor will also NOT display the error description, which leads me to conclude that the compiler is for whatever reason losing the description text - it's not the "Problems" view that seems to be screwing up, as per the good old "GIGO" principle (garbage in, garbage out). Again, I have been unable to reproduce this in a consistent manner at this time... HOWEVER, I have been able to SOMETIMES reproduce it by simply changing the number of problems displayed in the view (through the filter dialog - just changing it between 100 and 1000 and back to 100 again sometimes triggers it, but NOT all the time). I will make attachments showing some of this in action. I am using Windows 2000, JDK 1.4.2, Eclipse 3.1.
Created attachment 25791 [details] The normal "Problems" view. I am required to blur out the text. Sorry. This is a normal "Problems" view in my project, before weirdness occurs.
Created attachment 25792 [details] After saving a file, having fixed a problem This shows the "Problems" view after saving (CTRL-S), without taking ANY OTHER ACTION, after correcting a problem in a source file.
Created attachment 25793 [details] After switching the filter... the problems list becomes blank. After swapping the filter a couple times, this is what happens. All the descriptions are gone. Doing a complete clean and rebuild will NOT recover the descriptions. Nor will switching the filter. At least, not consistently.
Created attachment 25794 [details] Properties of a blank entry in the "Problems" view Right-clicking and choosing "Properties" for an item in the "Problems" view makes this show up. Note that the description line in the dialog is blank. Hovering over the line in the source file will not bring up a tooltip any more, either.
I apologize for the many attachments but I want to make sure this bug is not confused with other, similar bugs. Such similar bugs that are NOT duplicates of this (as far as I can gather) seem to be 86329, 92771, 93488, 45381, 46604, and 101299. This is an odd one. Good luck, guys! Wish I had a clue how to fix this one!
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*** Bug 106775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving to major as this really impedes our productivity. In our lab problem seen on both windows and linux.
(In reply to comment #8) > Moving to major as this really impedes our productivity. > In our lab problem seen on both windows and linux. This is a stuningly painful bug and I have reverted to 3.02 so I can develop as this gets fixed. Does anyone have any news of a workaround?
Darin do you have a replicatale case? I'm afraid I have never seen it here.
(In reply to comment #10) > Darin do you have a replicatale case? I'm afraid I have never seen it here. I can get this to occur by switching the number of displayed items around in my filter, as noted in the original report - try switching back and forth between 100 and 1000 a few times, and hopefully it will crop up...
Darin are you using 2000 or XP? I can't replicate on XP with a workbench with about 2000 errors and warnings using 3.1.1. Also can you make it go away by restarting?
XP and restarting did not reliably fix the problem. Others in our group have seen it on Linux as well.
It persists across startups, so no, it does not go away by closing and reopening. I am experimenting with a fresh Eclipse install and a junk project to see if I can find some way to consistently reproduce this error; so far, no luck. I wonder if the other folks on the CC: for this thread could assist me in trying to find some common factors... A little more detail about my project: * Workspace resides on local hard drive * Project resides on Samba mount point on UNIX system * ~100 jars on the classpath as a user library * ~70 source directories on the classpath * Compiling under 1.4 rules * Project is "shared" (initially checked out from CVS using Eclipse) I'll continue trying to replicate using a standalone project... no luck so far, though.
We are also experiencing this problem, and I haven't found a way to consistently reproduce it either. Our projects are also shared, but with Clearcase. My workspace is as follows: - Eclipse 3.1.0 Build id: I20050627-1435 - 16 projects loaded (all stored in clearcase) - Projects have dependencies with each others. There are also some circular dependencies between them. - using a clearcase snapshot view on the c: drive (but I've seen the problem using dynamic views on network drives too) - Compiling under 1.5 rules - ~35 source directories on the classpath, and maybe around 50 jars. - Problem view Filter set to 1000 items - The total # of Problems (warnings) is 25,547 The problem seems to have more chance of happening when there are compilation errors in the workspace. Especially when there are inter-project discrepancies. The last time it happened to me, someone had renamed a project and somehow eclipse had a hard time picking up the change when I used an old team project set to import all the projects. I fixed it by deleting all projects, reimporting them through an updated team project set, cleaning all projects and doing a full rebuild. I also tried reproducing it with a few small, dummy projects, with no luck... I'll post an update the next time it happens to me, if I can figure out the special conditions that make it happen...
I have just reproduced the bug in my environment described previously. - Turn off "build automatically" - Clean all projects (do not start a build) - Update my clearcase snapshot view, thus updating some workspace source files, adding new ones, etc. - select all projects from the package explorer - Press F5 to refresh them - Turn on "build automatically". Wait for the build to finish. The build then has 3 errors (with description) about missing resources and such (which was expected after this refresh), and 981 warnings. 975 warnings are from the RMI plugin we're using, and they have descriptions. 6 warnings seem to be from the eclipse compiler, and have only the icon and "Resource" columns filled in. The other columns are blank. Note that one particularity of this refresh is that one of the projects changed name (new <name> in its .project). Workspace refresh didn't pick that up, so it still shows the old name in the package explorer, and that is the cause of the 3 compilation errors. Maybe a change to .project outside of workspace control, followed by a workspace refresh, is a way to trigger this "no description" bug?
I've also encountered this problem... very frustrating... Our project generates about 1,500 warnings. When I use JLint for eclipse we get up to about 4600, changing some filter settings often results in loss of descriptions. :( Doing a Clean followed by a rebuild will get them back. (Otherwise they stay blank between rebuilds and IDE restarts) I've also notice that this can happen on a smaller scale where 2 or 3 warning descriptions are blank, not sure if this is related (perhaps eclipse is not parsing the javac output for those vs. missplacing all the message descriptions later).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83992 ***
