[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-2389) cannot uninstall JBDS Product Feature - eclipse left in unusable state due to missing eclipse.ini directives

cannot uninstall JBDS Product Feature - eclipse left in unusable state due to missing eclipse.ini directives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBDS-2389 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2389 Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio) Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: installer, updatesite Affects Versions: 6.0.0.CR1 Reporter: Nick Boldt Assignee: Nick Boldt Fix For: 7.0.0.Beta2 Steps to repro: Unpack bare Juno JEE. Install JBDS BYOE feature ("Core Features"). Restart Install JBDS Branded Product Feature. Restart. Uninstall JBDS Branded Product Feature (or revert configuration to previous). Restart. Eclipse is now broken: {code} java.lang.RuntimeException: Application "" could not be found in the registry. {code} Addtional info: {quote} Bare Juno JEE eclipse.ini: {code} $➔ cat eclipse/eclipse.ini -startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120522-1813 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product --launcher.defaultAction openFile -showsplash org.eclipse.platform --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.defaultAction openFile -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms40m -Xmx512m {code} or, for Eclipse Platform Binary: {code} -startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120522-1813 -showsplash org.eclipse.platform --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.defaultAction openFile -vmargs -Xms40m -Xmx384m {code} After installing JBDS BYOE: {code} $➔ cat eclipse/eclipse.ini -startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120522-1813 -showsplash org.eclipse.platform --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.defaultAction openFile -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -Djboss.discovery.directory.url=https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates/6.0-staging/devstudio-directory.xml {code} After installing JBDS branded product, eclipse.ini becomes jbdevstudio.ini: {code} $➔ cat eclipse/jbdevstudio.ini -startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120522-1813 --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.defaultAction openFile -product com.jboss.jbds.product.product -showsplash platform:/base/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.defaultAction openFile -vmargs -Djboss.discovery.directory.url=https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates/6.0-staging/devstudio-directory.xml -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -Dosgi.instance.area.default=(a)user.home/workspace {code} After UNINSTALLING JBDS branded product (to drop back to Eclipse + JBDS BYOE), can no longer start Eclipse. Here is the resulting eclipse.ini file: {code} $➔ cat eclipse/eclipse.ini -startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120522-1813 -product com.jboss.jbds.product.product -showsplash platform:/base/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.defaultAction openFile -vmargs -Djboss.discovery.directory.url=https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates/6.0-staging/devstudio-directory.xml -Xms512m -Xmx1024m {code} {quote} So, I think we need an instructions.unconfigure in com.jboss.jbds.p2.inf to remove these lines {code} -product com.jboss.jbds.product.product -showsplash platform:/base/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product {code} and replace them with the following when JBDS is uninstalled: {code} -application org.eclipse.ui.ide.workbench -showsplash org.eclipse.platform {code} Also need to know what happens if there are two -product directives... can we just add (and later remove, when uninstalling) our product to the list, or must we replace any existing -product entries with ours?