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"Unable to locate secure storage module (org.eclipse.equinox.security.windowspasswordprovider)" - Self Answer


Bo Chulindra (1.3k2718) | asked Mar 21 '13, 1:54 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
I'm seeing the error

Unable to read repository at http://host/tools/devtools-updatesite/content.xml
Unable to locate secure storage module (org.eclipse.equinox.security.windowspasswordprovider)

when using RTC 64-bit Eclipse client and trying to install software from a secured software update site. I'm not seeing this problem with RTC 32-bit Eclipse client.

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Bo Chulindra (1.3k2718) | answered Mar 21 '13, 1:59 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
edited Mar 21 '13, 2:00 p.m.
See "Unable to locate secure storage module (org.eclipse.equinox.security.windowspasswordprovider)" on 64-bit RTC eclipse client (256878).

A summary of the problem is that Eclipse uses a default location on your machine that is the same for all your Eclipse installs. So if you have installed and used 32-bit Eclipse, then your secure storage requires the 32-bit plugins to access. When you try to use a 64-bit Eclipse, it will try to read that secure storage and will fail because it is using the 64-bit plugins to read the storage.

The solution is to tell your Eclipse to use a different secure storage area. You can do this by running Eclipse with the following option:

-eclipse.keyring <file_path>

where <file_path> is the location of the file which you wish to use as your new secure storage area.

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