As it turns out, Eclipse uses mozilla by default to open the help files. In Window/Preferences/Help I changed the browser to firefox, and all works well... I never did find the log file. But since I can now search Help I found that if you start Eclipse w/ the -consolelog option, it is supposed to display log entries in the console. Mike ------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------- A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. -----Original Message----- From: Leendert Meyer [mailto:leen.meyer@home.nl] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:35 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Eclipse 3.0 on 9.2 On Wednesday 02 March 2005 17:46, Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:

I've never used eclipse before, so I thought I'd give it a try. When it opens to the Welcome page, none of the links on the Welcome page work. All I get is "AN exception occurred while launching help. Refer to the log for more details". First of all, I can't find the log. It isn't in /usr/share/eclipse, or /var/log.

Usually such applications store user related files in the user's home directory. See if there is such a file (perhaps '.eclipserc') or such a directory (perhaps '.eclipse/') in your ~/ directory. Already tried starting eclipse from a terminal window, like e.g. xterm or konsole? There might be some output on stdout. Anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn? (I guess not, but it doesn't hurt to look there anyway)

Any ideas where they stow their log?

Does eclipse come with documentation? That would be a good starting point... ;) Cheers, Leen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com