Bug 10714

Summary:	Need to document workaround for NullPointer in Eclipse Mars
Product:	[Documentation] ADT Manual	Reporter:	Humberto Ibarra <humberto.ibarra.lopez>
Component:	SDK	Assignee:	Humberto Ibarra <humberto.ibarra.lopez>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Humberto Ibarra <humberto.ibarra.lopez>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	poky.doc.watcher, poky.watcher, srifenbark, tim.orling
Version:	2.2
Target Milestone:	2.3 M2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:	06 Jan 2017: RESOLVED
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Done (doc changes complete)

Description Humberto Ibarra 2016-11-23 18:49:42 UTC

This is a spinoff of bug #10685

There is a NullPointer in Eclipse Mars described in the previous bug. The issue does not appear in Eclipse Neon but needs to be documented for SDK Manual 2.2

This issue comes from upstream but it is unlikely that it will be solved in Mars since Eclipse Neon already works. The workaround has been documented in the wiki, but needs to be documented in SDK Manual too. Here is the documentation that was added to the wiki:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TipsAndTricks/RunningEclipseAgainstBuiltImage#Dealing_with_java.lang.NullPointerException

The right place to add this might be in the Mars appendix:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/sdk-manual/sdk-manual.html#sdk-appendix-mars

Comment 1 Scott Rifenbark 2016-11-29 23:59:17 UTC

Hi, 

I am assuming that the nullpointer issue comes up right when you first try to launch Eclipse.  I have put a note in at the top of the appendix here - http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.3/sdk-manual/sdk-manual.html#mars-installing-eclipse-ide.  Please look it over and let me know if there are any problems with the note or if it needs anything else. 

thanks, 
Scott

Comment 2 Tim Orling 2016-12-01 19:34:01 UTC

That looks correct to me. I'll set Humberto as owner to finalize the buy-off.

Comment 3 Scott Rifenbark 2017-01-03 22:51:08 UTC

I don't own this but if all that is left is this documentation fix, which is in, can we set it to RESOLVED yet?

Thanks, 
Scott

Comment 4 Humberto Ibarra 2017-01-04 17:36:01 UTC

Moving this to RESOLVED since the change is already in.

Comment 5 Scott Rifenbark 2017-01-06 15:12:40 UTC

Setting the doc flag to "Done" since the state was moved to RESOLVED.

Scott