[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-24447?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi... ] Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-24447: ------------------------------------- CDK 2 is automatically detected by checking the running eclipse's configuration location and going to the relative path Platform.getOS().equals(Platform.OS_MACOSX) ? "../../../" : "") + "../../../cdk/"; This is typically where the installer would install the older runtimes. It then scans that folder for stuff. This sounds like it's working as expected? In the first start, we attempt to create runtimes directly, oftentimes using data from the installer. We try our best to do this to the best of our ability without involving user input on their first start. It's assumed that the installer will set variables or points in data files we check. However, after the first start is over, runtime detection will still try to 'detect' runtimes in the various "runtime path" locations, but won't assume nearly as much. They'll no longer check some of the installer configuration files, and will do a pure detection based only on the folder for the runtime path. This also sounds like it is working as expected? This sounds like a legitimate bug. Once a server adapter is created, we *will not* go modifying it based on whatever shell the user is launching it from. The user may have made several custom changes to it already, and we won't go putting our finger in the stuff they already set, or that we set to defaults. This would lead to inconsistant behavior based on where the user launches his workspace from. So once the server is created, THOSE are the values, and they won't be changed unless the user changes them. This sounds like when it was launched via the installer, the MINISHIFT_HOME environment variable was set when launching eclipse. Subsequent reloads of the devenv are being run from a shell directly? This, again, sounds like it's behaving as expected. The installer sets an environment variable (minishift_home) when launching, OR sets a property in some of the files that we asked installer to set for us. We create a server using those values, and we don't change it later if a user decides to relaunch from a different shell, or, if the shell they're launching from (on first start) has a different minishift_home than the installer files we check. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.2.3#72005)