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In both Eclipse 3.0.0 and 3.0.1, midway along attempting to install any feature from the network using the Install/Update manager, the network connection on my Window XP machine goes down, I get a message "Unable to retrieve remote reference ...", and the install is stopped. Before the connection goes down, I observe a severe slowdown in download speed from Eclipse. The same feature installed in Eclipse 2.1.3 in the same machine setup is installed successfully with no network connection slowdown or stopping. We have observed this behavior on most of our new powerful Windows XP machines. However, this problem is not observed on our older Windows XP machines. Please let me know of any additional information you may need about my system.
Would it be possible for you to debug this problem? I can provide some simple steps to so: 1. set up feature based self hosting, as described at the begining of this topic (the URL may wrap) http://help.eclipse.org/help30/index.jsp? topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tips/pde_tips.htm 2. in the Java perspective, from menu Navigate > Open Type, open this class: FeatureContentProvider 3. put a breakpoint at line 250 (which is throw Utilities.newCoreException( 4. run a runtime workbench in debug mode 5. when the debugger hits this line, see what the IOException e values are (particularly the message) Thanks!
I followed your instructions and detailMessage is: Connection timed out: connect
These days the connection to eclipse.org is very slow, so what you're seeing is probably not a factor of how fast the XP machine is, but of network problems. Do you ever get prompted to restart the download?
This happens also when installing a feature on our local network (internal builds of our Eclipse-based Parasoft product Jtest). In Eclipse 2.1.3, the install of the same product is very fast. In Eclipse 3.0.1 it stops midway. I do not get prompted to restart the download. BTW, the JRE is j2sdk1.4.2_05. Also, the exception above is a java.net.ConnectException.
Thanks. It looks like a server problem, but it could be created by a bad client. Have you tried other jdk's ?
Interesting! The problem does not occur when running Eclipse 3.0.1 with JDK 5.0 RC. The install is fast and successful. Thus, this issue does appear to depend on the JRE used. Note however that I am running Eclipse 2.1.3 under the same JRE as Eclipse 3.0.1 (j2sdk1.4.2_05).
I've been using 1.4.2_03 and never noticed the problem you describe. While this may be a jdk issue, I am still not convinced this is 100% the case, but I also don't see where the problem in eclipse could be (this is the first time the behavior has been reported).
Correction: the lost network connection does appear to happen when running under JDK 5.0 RC, though not as consistently as when running under JDK 1.4.2. Note that the problem also occurs in Eclipse 3.1.
+1 Sme problem here, but I can add a little detail. Update of the visual editor goes correctly until it hits plugins/com.ibm.etools.emf.event_3.0.0.1.jar, the update stalls, but that is not all! The continuos ping I had running along side suddenly also goes into timeout, and does this until I click away the error popup box in Eclipse, then it resumes. So I have to assume that the update totally blocks my internet connection. I have Eclipse 3.0 updating to the visual editor (with all the required updates).
Created attachment 14784 [details] Screen sniplet showing ping going into timeout during update When updating Eclipse 3.0 with the Visual Editor 1.0.1 half way my total internet connection seems to get blocked.
A related bug: bug 79212. It looks the update server os and the server software can affect this: - linux server running apache http server does not create problems for windows update clients - windows 2k/xp server running apache can lead to connection dropping
I can confirm that switching from hosting the plugin on a W2K/Apache 2.0 combo to hosting it over a network share has solved a similar problem for me. I haven't done too much analysis on it but it does seem to happen frequently when retrieving plugins which are already installed but which also contain additional jars. Quite why this would be related to the choice of hosting platform eludes me! Also, moving between 3.0 clients and 3.1 clients made no difference.
I get the same problem with Eclipse SDK 3.1.1 trying to install almost all of the additional projects (VE, WTP, etc..). I'm using jdk-1.5.0_05. I had the same behavior with j2sdk-1.4.2_10. I tried several mirrors, but all of them drop the connection. Windows XP SP2. When I get the error message, I note the URL of the file and paste it into IE and the file can download without problems.
I'm using: Eclipse Version: 3.1.2 Build id: M20060118-1600 On: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05) On: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and all hotfixes, etc. And I cannot install any of the plugins I've been trying to get - what's more, at a predictable point in each installation, every network connection other software has made is interrupted. For example, when grabbing Ruby Development Tools 0.7.0.512282200RC1 from rdt.rubypeople.org, it downloads the files, the "Feature Verification" window appears, and when I accept that, it starts "Verifying:" the various .jar files that it downloaded (ping running in the background indicates that the Internet cuts out somewhere during this phase). After verifying serveral files, the following error comes up: Unable to complete action for feature "Ruby Development Tools" due to errors. Unable to retrieve remote reference "http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/integration/plugins/org.rubypeople.rdt.debug.ui_0.7.0.512282200RC1.jar". [Connection timed out: connect] Unable to retrieve remote reference "http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/integration/plugins/org.rubypeople.rdt.debug.ui_0.7.0.512282200RC1.jar". [Connection timed out: connect] The Internet does not come back up until Eclipse is closed.
(In reply to comment #14) > I'm using: Eclipse Version: 3.1.2 Build id: M20060118-1600 > On: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05) > On: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and all hotfixes, etc. > > And I cannot install any of the plugins I've been trying to get - what's more, > at a predictable point in each installation, every network connection other > software has made is interrupted. > > For example, when grabbing Ruby Development Tools 0.7.0.512282200RC1 from > rdt.rubypeople.org, it downloads the files, the "Feature Verification" window > appears, and when I accept that, it starts "Verifying:" the various .jar files > that it downloaded (ping running in the background indicates that the Internet > cuts out somewhere during this phase). After verifying serveral files, the > following error comes up: > > Unable to complete action for feature "Ruby Development Tools" due to errors. > Unable to retrieve remote reference > "http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/integration/plugins/org.rubypeople.rdt.debug.ui_0.7.0.512282200RC1.jar". > [Connection timed out: connect] > Unable to retrieve remote reference > "http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/integration/plugins/org.rubypeople.rdt.debug.ui_0.7.0.512282200RC1.jar". > [Connection timed out: connect] > > The Internet does not come back up until Eclipse is closed. > I have exactly the same problem Eclipse Version: 3.1.2 Build id: M20060118-1600 on Windows XP on Linux it worked however. The connection is last at some predictable point (during verification of some RAR for some updates, and during download for another). It does the same thing on different servers at the same moment.
From "Big download in software update 'freezes' network stack" https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=101575 It appears to be related to the Marvell drivers. "increase the number of Recieve & Transmit in the adapter properties, I increased to 200" When I did this, the problem was resolved. Hope that helps.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101575 ***
