Hey Ian, Thanks for the information. Responses inline:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rajeev, > Thanks for the response. > > When you tried to install it again, did you install it in a clean version >> of Eclipse, or was it the version that you were using with all the failed >> installation attempts? It may be the case that you need to uninstall the >> plugin, and then try to reinstall it. Preferably, if possible, start with a >> clean install of Eclipse and a clean workspace, and try and install again >> (but follow the instructions in the FAQ entry mentioned above - they will >> greatly speed up the install process). >> > > It was a clean, new Eclipse installation. I was only trying to install the > GEP and the GWT SDK, nothing else. Eclipse locked up showing 31% completed, > nothing moving except the progress indicator (no actual progress, just > animation). Cancel didn't do anything (except disable the cancel button) and > after some time - in the region of 30 minutes - I went back and nothing had > changed. There was no option but to kill it in task manager. > This is definitely odd. It must have been some network problem, but I'm not sure which side it occurred on. One thing I do know is that Eclipse does not fail gracefully in such situations. Do you remember exactly what text was in the dialog at the time? Was it saying something like "computing requirements and dependencies", or was it saying "downloading", or maybe "installing"? > > The second attempt of the current series, it installed in 30 seconds or so. > I'm not sure exactly, I was watching TV, but it wasn't long at all. > > Now if I go to Software Updates, Installed Software shows the GEP and GWT > SDK as installed. Available Software shows the plugin (but no install option > is available) and the AppEngine SDK. > Does Installed Software also show the plugin as installed? Available Software should really not have any of the components as installable, if they've already been installed (unless you have the "Include items that have already been installed" checkbox checked). > The IDE doesn't have the two icons I had when it finally installed last > time, ordinary menu options are also not there (in File|New, or > right-clicking a project - nothing new) > Try going to Window -> Reset Perspective (or, on the Mac, Eclipse -> Reset Perspective). Does that help? Also, do you see any errors reported in the error log? Go to Window -> Show View -> Error Log (or, on the Mac, Eclipse -> Show View -> Error Log) to display the error log view. > >> >> I'm sorry that you had to go through all of this. Bad things can happen >> when components are not properly installed, as you experienced. This should >> not be the normal experience at all. Is your project/Eclipse back in a >> working state? If not, let me know and I'll help you to get it back to >> normal. >> > > Yes, despite unchecking the project as a GWT one in the GEP options, and > after the uninstall apparently working OK, there were still GEP changes in > there stopping the project working. Having sorted that out, as I said, > context assist didn't know about GWT classes. That is now fixed, too. > > I tried the -clean option (thanks Isaac) but unfortunately it didn't make > any difference. That was after restarting Eclipse, then rebooting the > machine. > > I'm not particularly worried about getting it working. As I said, I was > only re-installing it in order to answer the questions I was asked before. > Thanks for going through all of this in order to give us some useful information. We appreciate it. > > Cheers, > > Ian > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
