Description Jimmie 2008-09-25 17:54:31 EDT

Build ID: eclipse.buildId=M20080911-1700

Steps To Reproduce:
1.Help -> softwares update -> update
2.--> Unexpected error encountered while preparing for the operation.


More information:
org.eclipse.core.runtime.AssertionFailedException: null argument:
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isNotNull(Assert.java:86)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isNotNull(Assert.java:74)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.metadata.RequiredCapability.<init>(RequiredCapability.java:41)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.metadata.RequiredCapability.<init>(RequiredCapability.java:51)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.metadata.MetadataFactory.createRequiredCapability(MetadataFactory.java:210)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.io.MetadataParser$RequiredCapabilityHandler.<init>(MetadataParser.java:551)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.io.MetadataParser$RequiredCapabilitiesHandler.startElement(MetadataParser.java:528)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.persistence.XMLParser$AbstractHandler.startElement(XMLParser.java:171)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:501)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:179)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:377)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2747)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryIO$Parser.parse(MetadataRepositoryIO.java:193)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryIO.read(MetadataRepositoryIO.java:56)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.spi.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.validateAndLoad(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:116)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.spi.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:85)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.metadata.UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.initializeMetadataRepository(UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.java:187)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.metadata.UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.<init>(UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.java:67)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.metadata.UpdateSiteMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(UpdateSiteMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:48)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:485)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:452)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:435)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.director.SimplePlanner.updatesFor(SimplePlanner.java:384)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.query.QueryableUpdates.query(QueryableUpdates.java:48)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.actions.UpdateAction.getProvisioningPlan(UpdateAction.java:71)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.actions.ProfileModificationAction$1.run(ProfileModificationAction.java:62)
	at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)