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Bug 359657 - Automatic updates not working
Summary: Automatic updates not working
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: p2 (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: P2 Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-10-02 06:19 EDT by Charles Elliott CLA
Modified: 2011-10-02 10:24 EDT (History)
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Description Charles Elliott CLA 2011-10-02 06:19:48 EDT 
Build Identifier: Build id: 20110615-0604

Eclipse constantly posts the following message box:
'Automatic updates download' has encountered a problem.

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=epp.package.java, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
Comparison method violates its general contract!
Comparison method violates its general contract!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Eclipse
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Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-10-02 06:21:11 EDT 
I believe this is because of Java 7.
Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2011-10-02 10:24:59 EDT 
This is indeed caused by Java 7. This has been fixed in Indigo SR1.