Upgrading Ansi Con failed in my Eclipse instance about ansi-econsole HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi ccanaria,

I am sorry for you troubles, and thanks for reaching out to file a bug, rather than just abandon it.

Trying to see what's wrong, but (at least for now) I can't reproduce it.
I have also checked the server logs for the last 10 days, nothing suspicious...

But it looks like it is not uncommon, and not necessarily the problem of the plugin:

• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290782
• https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1026052/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470802/what-to-do-about-eclipses-no-repository-found-containing-error-messages

The post on stackoverflow suggest this:

1. you have to remove and re-add the Eclipse Project Update site, so that its metadata are re-calculated.
2. is to edit the pre-defined URL link by adding just a trailing “/” to the update site URL.
3. do nothing, but to uncheck the 'Contact all update sites during install to find required software' before checking the URL link.

My best bet is 1 (looks like 2 is a variation of it...)

So can you please remove the plugin site and then add it back?

• Help -> Install New Software... -> the "Available Software Sites" link, select the Ansicon site and remove it
• Add it back the way you did it first time (no need to do that if you install from Marketplace)

Thank you very much,
(and please let me know if one of the workarounds solves the problem)
Mihai

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Thank you Mihai for your response. I finally able to re-install it usign
the solution from this stackoverflow post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470802/what-to-do-about-eclipses-no-repository-found-containing-error-messages

On Thursday, 01 October, 2015 02:29 PM, Mihai Nita wrote:

Hi ccanaria,

I am sorry for you troubles, and thanks for reaching out to file a
bug, rather than just abandon it.

Trying to see what's wrong, but (at least for now) I can't reproduce it.
I have also checked the server logs for the last 10 days, nothing
suspicious...

But it looks like it is not uncommon, and not necessarily the problem
of the plugin:

• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290782
• https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1026052/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470802/what-to-do-about-eclipses-no-repository-found-containing-error-messages

The post on stackoverflow suggest this:

1. you have to remove and re-add the Eclipse Project Update site, so
   that its metadata are re-calculated.
2. is to edit the pre-defined URL link by adding just a trailing “/”
   to the update site URL.
3. do nothing, but to uncheck the 'Contact all update sites during
   install to find required software' before checking the URL link.

My best bet is 1 (looks like 2 is a variation of it...)

So can you please remove the plugin site and then add it back?

• Help -> Install New Software... -> the "Available Software Sites"
  link, select the Ansicon site and remove it
• Add it back the way you did it first time (no need to do that if
  you install from Marketplace)

Thank you very much,
(and please let me know if one of the workarounds solves the problem)
Mihai

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Thank for the update, glad it is solved.
Regards,
Mihai

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After I removed mihai nita's update site, the problem went away.

I don't know why STS put ansi-console as one of the plug-ins.It was safe to remove it since I have no idea what it even does.

This problem is occurring as recently with the STS 3.7.3/E4.6 which I downloaded a week ago. The eclipse bug is failing to skip uncertified/unavailable update sites. Which means an unbuggy Eclipse should have skipped it anyway, I might as well simply removed it.

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