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Bug 368184 - Eclipse restarts in a loop when I specify -clean option
Summary: Eclipse restarts in a loop when I specify -clean option
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 365722
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: platform-runtime-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-01-09 12:11 EST by Mauro Molinari CLA
Modified: 2012-01-10 02:15 EST (History)
2 users (show)

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The log produced by Eclipse when starting. (522.95 KB, text/plain)
2012-01-09 12:11 EST, Mauro Molinari CLA 		no flags Details
Correct extract from the log (170.54 KB, text/plain)
2012-01-09 12:13 EST, Mauro Molinari CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-01-09 12:11:50 EST 
Created attachment 209220 [details]
The log produced by Eclipse when starting.

If I add the "-clean" command line option, my Eclipse IDE now restarts in a loop repeatedly before asking for the workspace location and before showing the loading progress bar. I see the splash screen disappear and appear again shortly after, again and again.

I'm attaching a log obtained by using -consoleLog and -debug command line switches and redirecting the output to a TXT file. I hope some information in there can be useful to track down the problem.

I have no problem to run Eclipse if I remove the -clean option. And I didn't have problem to install plugins with the update manager so far.

I remember this behaviour also happened to a co-worker of mine some time ago (with Eclipse 3.6 I think).

NOTE about the attached log: this is the first "iteration" of the log. The complete log (obtained before I killed Eclipse through program manager) is a repetition of the attached one.
Comment 1 Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-01-09 12:13:53 EST 
Created attachment 209222 [details]
Correct extract from the log

Sorry, the previous attachment was the full log, indeed. This one is an extract containing the first "iteration".
Comment 2 Thomas Watson CLA 2012-01-09 13:44:17 EST 
Perhaps a duplicate of bug 365722.  Do you know if you have the framework extension org.codehaus.groovy.frameworkadapter installed?
Comment 3 Thomas Watson CLA 2012-01-09 13:46:22 EST 
From your log ...

Loading extension: reference:file:org.codehaus.groovy.frameworkadapter_2.6.1.xx-20120107-0800-e37.jar

Indicates that you do have org.codehaus.groovy.frameworkadapter installed.  I suspect this is a similar case as bug 365722.  I am going to duplicate this bug to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 365722 ***
Comment 4 Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-01-10 02:15:36 EST 
Thank you Thomas and sorry for the duplicate. I searched for similar bugs in the Eclipse Platform category and didn't find any :-(