Bug 228006 [Markers] Marker generation should not run on shutdown
I20080415-1646 Sorry, no steps to reproduce, but I was shutting down eclipse and got this NPE: !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.jobs 4 2 2008-04-21 15:48:30.821 !MESSAGE An internal error occurred during: "Process resource updates". !STACK 0 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Marker.getInfo(Marker.java:179) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Marker.getType(Marker.java:193) at org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal.MarkerGroup$GroupMarkerField.compare(MarkerGroup.java:311) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.MarkerComparator.compare(MarkerComparator.java:88) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1307) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1295) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1296) at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1223) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.CachedMarkerBuilder.sortAndMakeCategories(CachedMarkerBuilder.java:1107) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.CachedMarkerBuilder.buildAllMarkers(CachedMarkerBuilder.java:234) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.CachedMarkerBuilder$1.run(CachedMarkerBuilder.java:351) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55) I have a workspace with 135129 errors (yeah!) and I think the markers view was still populating itself (which seams to take forever) during the shutdown.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/views/markers/CachedMarkerBuilder.java
* @param contentGenerator
	 * @param id
	 *            id of the view we are building for
	 * @param memento
	 *            the memento to restore from
	 */
	public CachedMarkerBuilder(MarkerContentGenerator contentGenerator,
			String id, IMemento memento) {
		this.generator = contentGenerator;
		this.viewId = id;
		initialiseVisibleFields();
		initializePreferenceListener();
		this.memento = memento;
		if (memento == null)
			setDefaultCategoryGroup(contentGenerator);
		else {
			
			String categoryGroupID = memento.getString(TAG_CATEGORY_GROUP);
			if (categoryGroupID == null)
				setDefaultCategoryGroup(contentGenerator);
			else {
				if (categoryGroupID.equals(VALUE_NONE))
					this.categoryGroup = null;
				else {
					MarkerGroup newGroup = contentGenerator
							.getMarkerGroup(categoryGroupID);
					if (newGroup == null)
						setDefaultCategoryGroup(contentGenerator);
					else
						this.categoryGroup = newGroup;