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Install the platform into a directory that also contains a directory called plugins/. For example: /tmp /plugins /eclipse /plugins /features In this scenario, the wrong plugins directory is monitored by the dropins reconciler, and any extra content in the real plugins/ or dropins/ directory is monitored instead. The problem starts in PlatformXmlListener, which does the following: if (siteURL.startsWith("file:") && siteURL.endsWith("/eclipse/")) siteURL = siteURL.substring(0, siteURL.length() - 8); I.e., it sets the base directory to be the parent of the install directory (/tmp in the setup above). Then, in ExtensionLocationMetadataRepository constructor it calls ELMR#getBaseDirectory, which has the following logic: - If the base directory has a subdirectory called "plugins", then use that as the base - Otherwise add "eclipse" to the path and try again. Thus in most cases it ends up with the correct base directory. However, if the parent of the install directory contains a plugins/ directory, it ends up with the wrong base directory.
*** Bug 230215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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