What to do about Eclipse's "No repository found containing: ..." error messages?

Question

I'm running Eclipse's Helios EE bundle on Linux to which I added the subversive plugins, the m2e Maven integration and the Mylin connector for Trac. For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to install updates, and every time I get back a message like

No repository found containing <something or other>

The latest one was

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn,0.7.9.I20110318-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.core,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.help,0.7.9.I20110318-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.mylyn,0.7.9.I20110318-1700
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.team.svn.ui,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.team.svn,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.team.svn.mylyn,0.7.9.I20110523-1700
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.team.svn.resource.ignore.rules.jdt,0.7.9.I20110523-1700

What does it all mean and how do I fix that? If Eclipse has been able to contact the repositories to check for new files, why isn't it able to download those files from those some repositories? Or does the error message mean something entirely different?

Answer 1

Quick answer

Go to Help → Install new software → Here uncheck “Contact all update sites during install to find required software”

Eclipse will prompt that the content isn't authorized or something like that. just ignore and continue. then everything will be OK.

At least this trick resolved my problems similar like this:

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=). No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ant,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.codegen,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.codegen.ecore,2.8.1.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.codegen.ecore.ui,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.codegen.ui,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.common,2.8.0.v20120911-0500 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.common.ui,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.converter,2.5.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.databinding,1.2.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.databinding.edit,1.2.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ecore,2.8.1.v20120911-0500 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.change,2.8.0.v20120911-0500 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.change.edit,2.5.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.edit,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.editor,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi,2.8.0.v20120911-0500 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.edit,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.exporter,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.importer,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.importer.ecore,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.importer.java,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.importer.rose,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore.editor,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2ecore,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2ecore.editor,2.5.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml.ui,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ui,2.6.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core,1.4.300.v201111030424 No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.ui,1.4.300.v201111030424 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.codegen.ecore,2.8.1.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.codegen.ecore.ui,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.codegen,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.codegen.ui,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.common,2.8.0.v20120911-0500 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.common.ui,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.converter,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.databinding.edit,1.2.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.databinding,1.2.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.edit,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.ecore.editor,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.ecore,2.8.1.v20120911-0500 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.edit,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui,2.8.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf,2.8.1.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore.editor,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.mapping,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ui,2.7.0.v20120917-0436 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.eclipse.wst.common.fproj,3.4.0.v201202292300-377F8N8s735555393B7B