Question

I’m new to this android world and I’m finding that eclipse 3.5.2 is crashing constantly. There is no real rhyme or reason that I can see. Sometimes the crash occurs with the layout manager, sometimes when I try to search, other times when I attach a debugger.

I thought that there might be log files that could help me track down the problem.

Are there such things?

eclipse 3.5.2 with the latest android sdk.

Answer 1

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/documents/3.1/debug.html

Where is my Log?

Eclipse has a log
file where problems are recorded and
usually this is the first thing that
an Eclipse developer asks for when you
report a problem. The log file can be
found in a couple of places:

Workspace log – This is the most
common location for the log file, It
is stored in your workspace in the
meta-data directory. Check out
workspace/.metadata/.log.

Configuration log – Sometimes
information is recored in the
configuration log file instead of the
workspace log. (especially if the
workspace hasn’t been created yet,
there isn’t one, or it cannot be
created).
Check your configuration area
for a configuration log file.
(configuration/.log)

Startup – Occasionally problems happen
in the system really early before
there is a workspace and before there
is a configuration area. This means
that there is nowhere to write the log
file so information is written to the
console, See the notes below on
running with a console to get these
messages.