Has anyone succeeded in getting Eclipse's "Report bug or enhancement..." to work?

Question

Here it fails every time, on multiple installations, with "Unexpected error while creating task for this report" https://i.sstatic.net/DW09g.png .

I'm using "Eclipse for PHP Developers" latest version - 2018-09 (4.9.0).

EDIT: Further info:

I got the error after clicking Finish https://i.sstatic.net/mjSd5.png . I don't use the same workspace for both. I don't have a proxy. I did not knowingly try to report it anonymously, but the failing operation did not ask for any ID. This was on fairly new installations.

EDIT: Error details

eclipse.buildId=4.9.0.I20180906-0745
java.version=1.8.0_191
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_GB
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.php.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.php.product

and

!ENTRY org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.bugs 4 0 2018-11-04 22:03:08.842
!MESSAGE Unexpected error while creating task for error report
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Error retrieving task attributes from repository.

Premature end of file.
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaRepositoryConnector.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaRepositoryConnector.java:774)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaTaskDataHandler.initializeTaskData(BugzillaTaskDataHandler.java:439)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.ui.util.TasksUiInternal.createTaskData(TasksUiInternal.java:875)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.AttributeTaskMapper.createTaskData(AttributeTaskMapper.java:60)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.TaskErrorReporter.process(TaskErrorReporter.java:88)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.TaskErrorReporter$1.run(TaskErrorReporter.java:66)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui.CommonUiUtil$1.run(CommonUiUtil.java:47)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:122)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Premature end of file.
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.AbstractReportFactory.collectResults(AbstractReportFactory.java:125)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.RepositoryConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(RepositoryConfigurationFactory.java:40)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaClient.java:857)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaRepositoryConnector.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaRepositoryConnector.java:751)
    ... 7 more
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.mylyn.bugzilla 4 1 2018-11-04 22:03:08.843
!MESSAGE Error retrieving task attributes from repository.

Premature end of file.
!STACK 0
java.io.IOException: Premature end of file.
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.AbstractReportFactory.collectResults(AbstractReportFactory.java:125)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.RepositoryConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(RepositoryConfigurationFactory.java:40)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaClient.java:857)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaRepositoryConnector.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaRepositoryConnector.java:751)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaTaskDataHandler.initializeTaskData(BugzillaTaskDataHandler.java:439)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.ui.util.TasksUiInternal.createTaskData(TasksUiInternal.java:875)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.AttributeTaskMapper.createTaskData(AttributeTaskMapper.java:60)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.TaskErrorReporter.process(TaskErrorReporter.java:88)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.TaskErrorReporter$1.run(TaskErrorReporter.java:66)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui.CommonUiUtil$1.run(CommonUiUtil.java:47)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:122)

The same issue on Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers gave:

org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Error retrieving task attributes from repository.

Premature end of file.
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaRepositoryConnector.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaRepositoryConnector.java:774)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaTaskDataHandler.initializeTaskData(BugzillaTaskDataHandler.java:439)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.ui.util.TasksUiInternal.createTaskData(TasksUiInternal.java:875)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.AttributeTaskMapper.createTaskData(AttributeTaskMapper.java:60)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.TaskErrorReporter.process(TaskErrorReporter.java:88)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.tasks.bugs.TaskErrorReporter$1.run(TaskErrorReporter.java:66)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui.CommonUiUtil$1.run(CommonUiUtil.java:47)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:119)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Premature end of file.
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.AbstractReportFactory.collectResults(AbstractReportFactory.java:125)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.RepositoryConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(RepositoryConfigurationFactory.java:40)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaClient.java:857)
    at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaRepositoryConnector.getRepositoryConfiguration(BugzillaRepositoryConnector.java:751)
    ... 7 more

and

eclipse.buildId=4.8.0.I20180611-0500
java.version=1.8.0_191
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_GB
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.cpp.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.cpp.product

Answer 1

This looks like Eclipse bug 527895 which occurs with a new workspace.

If the workspace is old enough, the feature can be used, otherwise it fails with the known error dialog.

Please leave a comment that Help > Report Bug or Enhancement... is also affected by this bug.