Re: unable to lauch eclipse in linux

[Jason Fabritz <ajug@bugbytes.com>]

Poorav,

I'm running Eclipse 2.1 on Gentoo.  The "workspace" directory should be inside 
your user home directory.  Inside of that is a .metadata directory and inside 
that is the .log file.

(I hate where this directory goes in windows, I'm so tired of windows programs 
assuming a user has write access to the Program Files directory!)

Also, if you try to switch between the gtk and the motif versions, please 
delete the workspace directory tree before trying, there is something 
incompatible between the versions and I wasted a few cycles figuring out that 
one.

 - Jason.


On Thursday 05 June 2003 09:42 pm, Calvin Yu wrote:
> The log file should be in <eclipse path>/workspace/.metadata/.log.
>
> I'm not exactly sure how eclipse works on Linux, but maybe the fact you
> can't find the file is a clue?  In windows, the workspaces directory is
> created in the eclipse installation directory.  Do you have writable
> permissions to that directory on Linux?  You can indicate the workspace
> directory you want to use by passing in -data <workspace path> arguments to
> the executable.
>
> Calvin
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:10:56 -0700 (PDT), Poorav Chaudhari
>
> <pooravc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have RH 8. And am just trying to run eclipse (same problem for motif
> > and gtk
> > version) I get a dialog box that says.
> >
> > "Problems during startup. Check the .log file in the .metadata directory
> > of
> > your workspace."
> > I can't seem to find any .metadata directory or the .log file.
> >
> > Any ideas what i am missing?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Poorav Chaudhari
> >
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