* Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-01 10:10]: > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:59 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > * Paul Black <paul+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-01 09:57]: > > > The "cure" seems to be to run Eclipse as root once - this is something > > > that's happened for F10 (F9 didn't have this issue). > > > > Please don't do this. This causes files to be created as root which > > then can't be over-written by regular users which messes up the update > > manager. > > Please tell me more. Because I have accidentally run Eclipse as root. > > How do I get back to a perfectly clean Eclipse install. I've been > uninstalling Eclipse with yum, then deleting /usr/lib/eclipse and > ~/.eclipse. Am I missing anything ? Perhaps /usr/share/eclipse. But be careful not to delete files in /usr/lib/eclipse, /usr/share/eclipse (or /usr/lib64/eclipse) that aren't owned by a package that is built by the eclipse SRPM (ie. eclipse-*). > > There is at least one known issue upstream with plugins being found > > after yum installation. > > Please tell me more. I don't have the bug # on hand, but it's an issue whereby things put into the "dropins" folder don't get refreshed properly when they are removed and then re-added (like what happens with an rpm upgrade). I haven't run into this myself for a while and I add and remove plugins all the time. > > In all cases I've encountered, running with > > -clean will fix it. As usual, please file bugs for issues you run into. > > eclipse -clean ? Yes. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
