Current mood:

hungry

A stupid eclipse problem that I solved
Here's a technical post! Have you missed those?

I'm using Eclipse 3.3.0 (codename Europa) with the PHP processing thing (PDT).
And it was running fine until today, where it spewed me an ugly dialog box with this sort of an error message:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.jobs 4 2 2008-01-10 11:55:41.345
!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during: "Building workspace".
!STACK 0
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializeFunctionsParameterArray(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializeFunctionData(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializeFunctionDataArray(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializeClassData(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializeClassDataArray(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializePHPFileData(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.php.internal.core.util.SerializationUtil.deserializePHPFileDataArray(Unknown Source)


etc etc.
And then Eclipse didn't recognize the PHP language in the project. It didn't show the function list and other annoying stuff.

Erasing the configuration didn't help (I can't erase the project/workspace since it's shared).. and then I saw that other team members got the same error message. So what did I do?

I reviewed the list of all recently changed files (using mc. Gnome file manager and Konqueror just failed bringing me that list), and saw the .cache folder in the project folder. That looks like a thing which is fun to delete, no? So I renamed it, and guess what? Eclipse built it again.. and now it works!

Isn't it lovely?

Isn't it a good enough reason to marry me? Or at least go out with me. Girls, you gotta appreciate it.