288021 – Update site combo control is empty when root owns everything

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Bug 288021 - Update site combo control is empty when root owns everything

Summary: Update site combo control is empty when root owns everything

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249133

Alias:	None

Product:	Equinox
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	p2 (show other bugs)
Version:	3.5
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	P2 Inbox
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Reported:	2009-08-28 20:18 EDT by Remy Suen
Modified:	2009-08-28 22:04 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Remy Suen

2009-08-28 20:18:31 EDT

For some time now people have been coming on IRC and complaining that their update site combo box is empty. Most people just get the Galileo update site and up and leave but today I managed to extract some information.

1. Untar eclipse-SDK-3.5-linux-gtk.tar.gz in /opt.
2. chown root:root eclipse
3. find . -exec chown root:root {} \;
4. In another terminal on a regular user, invoke /opt/eclipse/eclipse -data ~/tmp-ws
5. Help > Install New Software... > Click the drop down
6. The sites are not there. If I start Eclipse with root then it does.

Is this a bug or some kind of platform limitation? I would be interested in adding this to our IRC FAQ (that nobody ever reads).

Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2009-08-28 22:04:14 EDT

This is a known issue. Adding it to the FAQ is a good idea.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 249133 ***