Well it seemed that all the editors in eclipse had disappeared. I deleted /opt/eclipse and installed eclipse 4.9.0. This converted my workspace metadata and all was back to normal exactly as I had left it. I've no idea what caused the issue in the first place. Cheers Bill -----Original message----- > From:Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.me> > Sent: Wednesday 28th November 2018 19:38 > To: scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov > Subject: SL7 updates cause issues with eclipse 4.7.3a > > Hi > Is it possible that the git updates has caused my eclipse IDE to stop working > properly, or is it something else? > I cannot edit any file in my projects and running eclipse with -clean doesn't > help. > I get a pop-up error with: > > An error has occurred. See error log for more details. > org/eclipse/jdt/core/IJavaElement > > Has anyone else come across this? > > Cheers > Bill > > The logs show: > > eclipse.buildId=4.7.3.M20180330-0640 > java.version=1.8.0_191 > java.vendor=Oracle Corporation > BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_AU > Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.php.product > Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -product > org.eclipse.epp.package.php.product -clean > > org.eclipse.jface > Error > Wed Nov 28 19:26:07 AEDT 2018 > Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface". > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jdt/core/IJavaElement > at > org.jetbrains.kotlin.aspects.navigation.KotlinOpenEditorAspect.ajc$around$org_jetbrains_kotlin_aspects_navigation_KotlinOpenEditorAspect$1$d64491c4(KotlinOpenEditorAspect.aj:17) > > at > org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.EditorUtility.openInEditor(EditorUtility.java:164) > > at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.OpenAction.run(OpenAction.java:279) > at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.OpenAction.run(OpenAction.java:244) > at > org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.SelectionDispatchAction.dispatchRun(SelectionDispatchAction.java:271) > > at > org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.SelectionDispatchAction.run(SelectionDispatchAction.java:249) > > at > org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.navigator.OpenAndExpand.run(OpenAndExpand.java:50) > > at org.eclipse.ui.actions.RetargetAction.run(RetargetAction.java:216) > at > org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigatorManager$2.open(CommonNavigatorManager.java:191) > > at > org.eclipse.ui.OpenAndLinkWithEditorHelper$InternalListener.open(OpenAndLinkWithEditorHelper.java:46) > > at > org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$2.run(StructuredViewer.java:851) > at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42) > at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil.lambda$0(JFaceUtil.java:44) > at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:173) > at > org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.fireOpen(StructuredViewer.java:848) > > at > org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handleOpen(StructuredViewer.java:1163) > > at org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonViewer.handleOpen(CommonViewer.java:451) > at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.fireOpenEvent(OpenStrategy.java:273) > at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$2(OpenStrategy.java:268) > at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$1.handleEvent(OpenStrategy.java:308) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:86) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:5348) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1348) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4602) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4183) > at > org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1150) > > at > org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) > at > org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1039) > > at > org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:153) > > at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:680) > at > org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) > at > org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:594) > at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:148) > at > org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:151) > > at > org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) > > at > org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134) > > at > org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104) > > at > org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388) > at > org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) > at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:653) > at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:590) > at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1499) > at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1472) > > >