Not sure if I have all of them again, but probably I will notice when plugins start to get incompatible and I am not getting offered any updates. repository.prefs file, but more recent ones I had to Google and add again. I was able to restore most of them by manually searching for '/uri=' in an old backup of the. However the 'metadata' file contains only a few entries.Īs this bug occurs only occasionally I would place my bet that there is a race condition in the code populating the data that is later written to the file or in the write process itself. When I look at those two files on the affected Eclipse installation the 2. looks good.
If I add an entry I find identical entries in the following files:Įclipse\p2\2.engine\profileRegistry\\.data\.settings\ The strange part is that there is nothing in the log.Īs this is a pretty only bug that affects nearly every Eclipse from the past years I would recommend to increase logging in the component that is responsible for loading and verifying the update sites so that we can finally fix this bug.īTW: Does anybody know why the update sites are stored twice?
