Eclipse 'indigo' hangs on any operation with erlide about erlide_eclipse HOT 6 CLOSED

Just now downloaded Eclipse 'Helios' 3.5.2, and installed Erlide as per the steps mentioned (add official Erlide source URL) and update. It asked for permission to install unsigned software, which I agreed to, went thru a restart. All seemed fine. Java project creation succeeds, however exact same behaviour i.e. Eclipse became unresponsive.

BTW, my host OS is Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) on intel i5 processor, and java is version 1.6.0_26 (64-bit) from official Oracle source.

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Please see also the answer on erlang-questions. This is not an erlide issue.

Check your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, it may be misconfigured.

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The hosts file doesn't have any valid host entries, should I be having any ? Running "hostname" on command prompt gives me the valid hostname, and trying ping to that hostname succeeds. Doesn't it mean that name to IP mapping is working ? Shouldn't it be enough for Erlide (or Eclipse) ?

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It wouldn't hurt to have an entry in the hosts file (with your real IP and
the fully qualified name).

with "hostname", do you get the fully qualified name?
Can you ping your FQDN?

The name resolving is sometimes weird... Java has its own resolver, Erlang
its own, and the OS yet another. More precisely, they try the different ways
in different order.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 07:51, bdutta <
[email protected]>wrote:

The hosts file doesn't have any valid host entries, should I be having any
? Running "hostname" on command prompt gives me the valid hostname, and
trying ping to that hostname succeeds. Doesn't it mean that name to IP
mapping is working ? Shouldn't it be enough for Erlide (or Eclipse) ?

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I can ping my FQDN as well. I think this might have to do with some strange way in which Windows 7 networking work.
Will try adding a hosts entry, but it'd be a temporary thing, because for using this laptop on the corporate LAN, I'd need to revert. Thanks for the help.

Well, I think I'd need to dig into it a bit, but I can see that this is probably not a eclipse / erlide issue, so will close it.

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If you check the erlang-questions archives, you may find pointers to how to check Erlang's host name resolver, to see what it thinks that your machine's FQDN is.

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