eclipse ide problem to find installation error. please help.

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

hi all,
I am using eclipse gallelio for the last 5 month and today when i was installing new tools the electricity was gone! when electricity came back the o/s starts and do scanning process, i found out a message on that process is that, "eclipse/artifacts.xml" is invalid. After starting the o/s i go to eclipse and click on it. it does not start. then i unzip the backup file of eclipse galileo and copy the artifacts.xml file and paste it into running eclipse. when i click again the eclipse button, it starts. but when i go to install new software on help menu, the new software installation process does not work. now, what i need to you is:


Can anyone tell me about any automated or manual process by which i can found how much damage is done on my installed eclipse?

Please help me, friends. Have a nice day.

thank you
codeperl

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

please help me. I am in great trouble now. My updating and new software process does not work and behave correctly on this issue. it will be helpful anyone can also describe that, the "artifacts.xml" file, that what it conents actually and how can we write it manually for configure.

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

Can anyone please help me on this issues?

[Peter Johnson]

The problem could be either in your workspace or the Eclipse installation itself. Try this: open a new workspace, then try installing a new plugin and see if that works. If it does, copy your projects from your old workspace to the new one. If it doesn't work, reinstall Eclipse. And given that the system crashed, also try reinstalling the JDK.

[Andrew Monkhouse]

You may be able to regenerate this using the metadata generator

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

Andrew Monkhouse wrote:You may be able to regenerate this using the metadata generator

Thank you. I should take a try. Think it it will help me.

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

Peter Johnson wrote:The problem could be either in your workspace or the Eclipse installation itself. Try this: open a new workspace, then try installing a new plugin and see if that works. If it does, copy your projects from your old workspace to the new one. If it doesn't work, reinstall Eclipse. And given that the system crashed, also try reinstalling the JDK.

Thank you for your suggestion. many thanks.

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

Any other idea, friend? i found meta data generator deprecated and publisher is a little bit complex. so, any other idea to anyone?

thanking you
codeperl

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

If the artifact.xml file is corrupted and deleted automatically by system error after installation of some plugins and i placed this file again by unzipping the original eclipse zip file, is it create any problem to run the software again? the plugins runs errorlessly?

Actually what i mean is that, when i update and install the software does the artifact.xml file also updated? and if so, then if i replace that file with the backdated one is it run errorlessly?

thanks
codeperl

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

my artifacts.xml file is deleted from the root folder of installed eclipse Galileo. to buildup my working environment i already installed lot of big size plugins on this eclipse. now, when the artifacts.xml file is deleted automatically for system error, i fall in big big trouble. can any one tell me how can i get the artifacts.xml or any other way by which the current eclipse run errorlessly and with all the installed plugins.


Is the artifacts.xml file is very much improtant to run eclipse? What it contents actually? Is it a resource of plugins information? how it creates problems? Please help me to know and solve, frined.

regards
codeperl

[Mohammad Ashrafuddin Ferdousi]

Please help me, friend.i need your help.

[Sanehiro Kodama]

I'm not sure if you tried this already, but give it a try:

1. Install a new instance of Galileo
2. Copy the artifacts.xml from new installation to the old installation
3. Run the old installation with -clean option e.g. eclipse.exe -clean

I had a similar problem and could solve it by doing the above.

Cheers