Eclipse RSE Error: Operation failed. File system input or output error

Question

I am trying to connect Eclipse to a Virtualbox instance running Ubuntu on Windows 10, using the Remote Systems Explorer. I am able to establish an SSH-only connection by inputting my username and password, and I can access the file system. However, when I try to actually open a file, I get an RSEF1002 error:

Operation failed. File system input or output error

I have set chmod 777 on the directory which I would like to work from. I also tried disconnecting and reconnecting my Eclipse connection, and restarting Eclipse. Nothing has worked so far. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

Let me know if there are more details I can provide that might help debug the problem.

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem. I went and did

ls -la

in my workspace "/home/myuser/workspace-cdt" and and then went into a directory called RemoteSystemsTempFiles the i saw a directory "10.160.16.3" corresponding to the IP of the machine i was working on, but what was important there the owner was root

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mai 16 23:06 10.160.16.3

then did

chown -R myuser:myuser 10.160.16.3

and that's how i sloved my problem. I think that happened because i did and upgrade of eclipse cdt from root and that messed up the directory permission in my workspace.