Chapter 3. Known Issues in Eclipse 4.14.0

This section details the known issues in Eclipse 4.14.0.

3.1. Eclipse hangs on startup

Cause: Eclipse can hang on startup due to a thread deadlock.

Consequence: Only the Eclipse splashscreen is shown without displaying the workspace selection dialog.

Workaround: Kill the offending Eclipse process by finding its PID and sending the process a kill signal. Example:

$ jps
30066 Jps
31631 org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.300.v20190308-0658.jar
$ kill 31631

Result: Once the offending process has been killed, Eclipse can be restarted normally.

3.2. Running a workspace created in older Eclipse version causes "Initializing Eclipse Error Reporting System" error

Workaround: Restart Eclipse with the -clean option to clear its dependency resolution cache:

$ scl enable rh-eclipse "eclipse -clean"

Result: Eclipse will start up without this error message.

3.3. NullPointerException with some plug-ins from third-party sources

When a plug-in from a third-party update site is installed, Eclipse sometimes fails to start with a NullPointerException in the workspace log file.

Workaround: Restart Eclipse with the -clean option to clear its dependency resolution cache:

$ scl enable rh-eclipse "eclipse -clean"

Result: Eclipse will start up normally.

3.4. Debuginfo Conflicts

Cause: When a user attempts to install a debuginfo package for this collection, for example: rh-eclipse-eclipse-cdt-debuginfo, the contents may conflict with the same packages from the earlier collections.

Consequence: The installation of the rh-eclipse debuginfo package may fail if the same debuginfo package from the rh-eclipse48 collection is installed.

Workaround: To use debuginfo for the rh-eclipse collection, debuginfo packages from the rh-eclipse48 collection should first be uninstalled using the command yum remove rh-eclipse48*debuginfo.

Result: The installation of the debuginfo packages from the rh-eclipse collection is successful.

3.5. Conflict between the RHSCL rh-maven33-scldevel and rh-maven35-scldevel packages

There is a conflict between the RHSCL rh-maven33-scldevel and rh-maven35-scldevel packages. This affects the rh-eclipse-scldevel package (note that this package is not installed by default).

The rh-eclipse-scldevel and rh-eclipse46-scldevel packages cannot be present simultaneously.

3.6. PyDev users may experience issues with the pip integration

Modules that are pre-installed by the Python SCL cannot be uninstalled; attempts to do so will result in permission denied errors.

3.7. PyDev shortcut to manage Python modules does not work

Using the Ctrl+2 shortcut and selecting pip does not function properly.

Consequence: Attempts to use this shortcut result in an SWTException in the workspace log.

Workaround: Users can continue to manage their Python modules using the PyDev > Interpreters preference.

3.8. Incompatibilities between Eclipse Subclipse and base RHEL Subversion

Working copies of Subversion repositories created with Eclipse Subclipse are incompatible with the base RHEL version of Subversion. Using the svn command on such working copies may result in the following error:

$ svn up
svn: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy

Workaround: Use the pure-Java implementation of Subversion used by Eclipse Subclipse on the command line:

# yum install rh-eclipse-svnkit-cli # Command line support for SVNKit

Now, use the jsvn command anywhere you would normally use the svn command:

$ jsvn up
Updating '.':
At revision 16476.

3.9. Tycho Conflicts

Cause: The rh-eclipse-tycho package conflicts with the same package from the earlier collections, for example: rh-eclipse48-tycho.

Consequence: The installation of rh-eclipse-tycho package may fail when the rh-eclipse48-tycho package is already installed.

Workaround: Note that only users that want to build or re-build Eclipse or its plug-ins need tycho. If needed, uninstall the rh-eclipse48-tycho package using the yum remove rh-eclipse48-tycho command before attempting to install the rh-eclipse-tycho package.

Result: The installation of the rh-eclipse-tycho package is successful.