Solution for failing update from STS 2.5.0 to 2.5.1

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi,

if you're trying to update your STS 2.5.0.RELEASE to 2.5.1.RELEASE the update process might fail with the following error:

An error occurred while unconfiguring the items to uninstall
session context was:(profile=com.springsource.sts.ide, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Unconfigure, operand=[R]com.springsource.sts.ide 2.5.0.201010241000-RELEASE --> [R]com.springsource.sts.ide 2.5.1.201011111000-RELEASE, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.RmdirAction).
Could not remove directory /home/user/bin/springsource/sts-2.5.0.RELEASE/dropins.

A simple work-around for this error is to add an empty file into the dropins folder of your STS installation. This error has been fixed and will not happen again when updating 2.5.1 to 2.5.2 in the future.

For more details see the following bug reports:

STS-1345: Upgrading 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 does not work
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1345

STS-1242: Failed to update product from 2.3.3.M2 to 2.5.0.M3
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1242

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Christian

[petrf]

I have the same problem on Windows 7

An error occurred while unconfiguring the items to uninstall
session context was:(profile=com.springsource.sts.ide, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Unconfigure, operand=[R]com.springsource.sts.package.feature.group 2.5.0.201010241000-RELEASE --> [R]com.springsource.sts.package.feature.group 2.5.1.201011111000-RELEASE, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.RmdirAction).
Could not remove directory D:\prg\springsource.2.5.0\sts-2.5.0.RELEASE/dropins.

Petr

[brunolmfg]

Thanks! This fix works fine for me.

[archetype]

If you're using Windows 7, try to add a file "temp.txt" inside the dropins folder. It should work.

Cheers,

[aalmero]

Hi,

if you're trying to update your STS 2.5.0.RELEASE to 2.5.1.RELEASE the update process might fail with the following error:

An error occurred while unconfiguring the items to uninstall
session context was:(profile=com.springsource.sts.ide, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Unconfigure, operand=[R]com.springsource.sts.ide 2.5.0.201010241000-RELEASE --> [R]com.springsource.sts.ide 2.5.1.201011111000-RELEASE, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.RmdirAction).
Could not remove directory /home/user/bin/springsource/sts-2.5.0.RELEASE/dropins.

A simple work-around for this error is to add an empty file into the dropins folder of your STS installation. This error has been fixed and will not happen again when updating 2.5.1 to 2.5.2 in the future.

For more details see the following bug reports:

STS-1345: Upgrading 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 does not work
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1345

STS-1242: Failed to update product from 2.3.3.M2 to 2.5.0.M3
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1242

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Christian

Same issue still exists when updating from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2, but solution still works!

[Martin Lippert]

Hm, this is strange, I checked this and the update from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2 works without that specific problem. I will play around with some more situations to verify this.

[Martin Lippert]

I now tried several settings, also installing 2.5.0, updating to 2.5.1 (using the workaround) and then to 2.5.2 (without the workaround), all without any problems. So it seems like a very specific situation that you have here. Do you have more details?

[patrick198]

Hi,

if you're trying to update your STS 2.5.0.RELEASE to 2.5.1.RELEASE the update process might fail with the following error:

An error occurred while unconfiguring the items to uninstall
session context was:(profile=com.springsource.sts.ide, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Unconfigure, operand=[R]com.springsource.sts.ide 2.5.0.201010241000-RELEASE --> [R]com.springsource.sts.ide 2.5.1.201011111000-RELEASE, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.RmdirAction).
Could not remove directory /home/user/bin/springsource/sts-2.5.0.RELEASE/dropins.

A simple work-around for this error is to add an empty file into the dropins folder of your STS installation
free online movies. This error has been fixed and will not happen again when updating 2.5.1 to 2.5.2 in the future.

For more details see the following bug reports:

STS-1345: Upgrading 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 does not work
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1345

STS-1242: Failed to update product from 2.3.3.M2 to 2.5.0.M3
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1242

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Christian

Great post! It's very nice. Thank you so much for your post.

[mikfreeman]

I have the same problem updating from 2.5.2 to 2.6.0.M1 on Mac OS Snow Leopard

[Martin Lippert]

That is strange, this should be solved for quite some time now. Did the workaround work for you as well?