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Eclipse Preference Page Extension Wizard troubleshooting

Today I tried to add a Preference Page to an RCP application that I’m working on with no luck. After executing the Extension -> Add -> Extension Wizards -> Preference Page I end up with 3 new classes. But 2 of then have compilation errors, they refer to an unexisting PreferenceClass. After googling a bit [...]

New views don’t show up when using Eclipse RCP setSaveAndRestore

If you add a new view to an Eclipse RCP and when launch it the new view is not there you probably hit the problem described in this
CT Arrington’s Weblog post.
The IWorkbenchConfigurer.setSaveAndRestore(true) called from your WorkbenchAdvisor can be the source of the problem. The Eclipse RCP platform is trying to restore the perspective from [...]

cvs [xxxxx]: received broken pipe signal

Today I received this error message when issuing a cvs import to the cvs repository
cvs [import failed]: received broken pipe signal
after googling a little bit I found this mail thread that led me to the following entry in the cvs manual about loginfo
Note that the filter program must read all of the [...]

Cygwin problem: Can’t access /cygdrive/c

I’ve lost my ability to see my c: drive from cygwin. when I do
cd c:
or
cd /cygdrive/c
all goes ok. But if I do
ls
then it complains
ecerulm@rlm-ecb4fe6cda1 /cygdrive/c
$ ls
ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
I found something at this forum and also here
So it seems that I screwed up permission (maybe it related to some automatic [...]