Re: RDi suddenly will not start -- WDSCI-L

Thanks Chris. I did locate that log and not being familiar with Java
internals it made little sense. Now that I see how it sort of fits
together, I might be able to fix it later if it happens again. Anyway, I
managed to get running again by deleting that workbench file and moving my
views around again once RDi started up again.

Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Hiebert, Chris <
chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The workspace log is in the ".metadata" folder in the workspace.
It is called ".log" (dot log).

That should contain all the java exceptions that you are getting.

To recover you should first try to run RDI with the "-clean" option. In
your RDI shortcut add -clean at the very end of the "Target".
Then start RDI and it might fix itself.

If that doesn't work then make a backup copy of your broken workspace. I
suggest compressing it into a zip file. This is so if you try the next
steps and don't get a desired result you can press the undo button.

Now, the spool file you tried to open is probably stuck in the list of
files that are to be opened every time the workspace starts up.
Those entries are contained in the workbench.xmi file.
\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.e4.workbench\workbench.xmi

Now, if you don't want to fiddle with the workbench file and you are not
concerned with preserving your perspectives or views then the easiest
solution would be to just remove the folder.
\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.e4.workbench\

Once you restart RDI it will recreate the folder and all of your views
will be reset back to defaults.

If you want to keep all of your perspectives and view positions, then you
will want to open the file and try to locate and remove the reference to
the spool file you tried to open.
The java exception from the workspace log will sometimes give you the
xmi:id of the element that it was unable to open.

I have been able to successfully remove these entries from the file but it
was nontrivial.
You have to remove the xml element for the file and then make sure that an
outer xml element does not reference the element you just removed.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily represent those of the company.

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart
Rowe
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:39 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WDSCI-L] RDi suddenly will not start

Dang I have work to do.

So I thought I would try the spooled file viewer that comes in RDi to see
if it makes the toolbar appear (from another thread). Well, that blew up
-- hard -- with an out-of-memory error, crashed RDi (but not with a JAVA
excpetion stack, it looked like an OS dialog).

Now RDi will not start up!

I rebooted the PC (Windows 10).

I am clueless about logs and such, and troubleshooting this thing. Any
clues where logs may be spewing out in failure cases?

It will start up with a new workspace of course (the miracle that is
Eclipse) but I have a ton of filters and syntax highlighting settings I'd
like to somehow dig out of the old workspace. Any help with that would be
appreciated as well.
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