Problems with CDK Adapter resulting from missing PATH in Eclipse on Mac ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-21170 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-21170 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: cdk Affects Versions: 4.3.1.Beta1 Reporter: Martin Malina Assignee: Rob Stryker Fix For: 4.3.1.CR1 After I set up a CDK server adapter and fixed the wrong path to vagrant in the launch config, I then started the server adapter and got this: Server CDK Server Adapter at localhost failed to start. Console: {code} The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown below: Vagrant could not detect VirtualBox! Make sure VirtualBox is properly installed. Vagrant uses the `VBoxManage` binary that ships with VirtualBox, and requires this to be available on the PATH. If VirtualBox is installed, please find the `VBoxManage` binary and add it to the PATH environmental variable. {code} Along with this, there was an Unhandled event loop exception in the error view: {code} org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Failed to execute runnable (java.lang.NullPointerException) at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4491) at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4406) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:138) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:4024) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3700) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$4.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1127) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:337) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1018) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:156) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:654) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:337) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:598) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:150) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:139) 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:380) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:235) 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:520) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:669) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:608) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1515) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.tools.central.editors.GettingStartedHtmlPage.updateEarlyAccess(GettingStartedHtmlPage.java:359) at org.jboss.tools.central.editors.GettingStartedHtmlPage.access$14(GettingStartedHtmlPage.java:342) at org.jboss.tools.central.editors.GettingStartedHtmlPage$6$1.run(GettingStartedHtmlPage.java:327) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.UILockListener.doPendingWork(UILockListener.java:162) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.UISynchronizer$3.run(UISynchronizer.java:154) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:135) ... 23 more {code} In the command line, VBoxManage is accessible and it is located in /usr/local/bin/ and on my PATH. Max suggested I could try to start Eclipse from command line instead of double-clicking in Finder (which is the normal way to do it on Mac) and that helped. So for some reason when you start Eclipse using Eclipse.app from Finder, the PATH is incorrect.