Eclipse Juno- Suddenly “cannot run program 'make' : unknow reason”

Question

I'm using Eclipse JUNO for developing C applications. It runs on Ubuntu 12.04 inside a 3-CPU, 1GiB RAM virtual machine.

Everything works perfectly, but sometimes, I cannot build my application any more and the following error occurs:"cannot run program make; unknown reason".

Any idea on how to fix this?

Answer 1

Apparently this error is due to low memory conditions. It mostly occurs after searching in files within Eclipse (a search that returns a large result set). If the error occurs again:

• Re-start Eclipse and try again
• If it does not fix the problem, you need to completely reboot the OS