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If a problem is solved by a software reinstall, is it unreproducible?

As an example, I've asked a question about an Eclipse bug which occurred after I installed Python 3 two days ago, and after that I had to reinstall Eclipse three times.

All of those three bugs were solved by reinstalling Eclipse.

I asked about the latest bug I had here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69639614/compiler-not-accepting-import-java-awt-event-mouselistener-in-all-new-eclipse-pr

Eventually, the question was closed as "not reproducible or caused by typos".

Tangentially, I also had two typos in my question originally, which would have caused the bug if I had mistyped them in my actual code, but I only mistyped them in the question text (I forgot event in the title and in the first line), the actual import contained the full and correct java.awt.event.MouseListener though, which can be seen in the third edit of the question.

On this specific example, I was able to reproduce the behavior by uninstalling and reinstalling Python 2 more times and having the same compiler error two more times, and then solve the problem by reinstalling two more times.

In this case, would the question still be closable as "typo/non-reproducible"?

If a problem is solved by a software reinstall, is it unreproducible?

As an example, I've asked a question about an Eclipse bug which occurred after I installed Python 3 two days ago, and after that I had to reinstall Eclipse three times.

All of those three bugs were solved by reinstalling Eclipse.

I asked about the latest bug I had here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69639614/compiler-not-accepting-import-java-awt-event-mouselistener-in-all-new-eclipse-pr

Eventually, the question was closed as "not reproducible or caused by typos".

Tangentially, I also had two typos in my question originally, which would have caused the bug if I had mistyped them in my actual code, but I only mistyped them in the question text (I forgot event in the title and in the first line), the actual import contained the full and correct java.awt.event.MouseListener though, which can be seen in the third edit of the question.

On this specific example, I was able to reproduce the behavior by uninstalling and reinstalling "Python 3" two more times and having the same compiler error two more times, and then solve the problem by reinstalling two more times.

In this case, would the question still be closable as "typo/non-reproducible"?

If a problem is solved by a software reinstall, is it unreproducible?

As an example, I've asked a question about an eclipse bug which occurred after I installed Python3 2 days ago, and after that I had to reinstall eclipse 3 times.

All of those 3 bugs were solved by reinstalling eclipse.

I asked about the latest bug I had here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69639614/compiler-not-accepting-import-java-awt-event-mouselistener-in-all-new-eclipse-pr

Eventually, the question was closed as "not reproducible or caused by typos".

Tangentially, I also had 2 typos in my question originally, which would have caused the bug if I had mistyped them in my actual code, but I only mistyped them in the question text (I forgot event in the title and in the first line), the actual import contained the full and correct java.awt.event.MouseListener though, which can be seen in the 3rd edit of the question.

On this specific example, I was able to reproduce the behavior by uninstalling and reinstalling Python 2 more times and having the same compiler error 2 more times, and then solve the problem by reinstalling 2 more times.

In this case, would the question still be closable as "typo/non-reproducible"?

If a problem is solved by a software reinstall, is it unreproducible?

As an example, I've asked a question about an Eclipse bug which occurred after I installed Python 3 two days ago, and after that I had to reinstall Eclipse three times.

All of those three bugs were solved by reinstalling Eclipse.

I asked about the latest bug I had here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69639614/compiler-not-accepting-import-java-awt-event-mouselistener-in-all-new-eclipse-pr

Eventually, the question was closed as "not reproducible or caused by typos".

Tangentially, I also had two typos in my question originally, which would have caused the bug if I had mistyped them in my actual code, but I only mistyped them in the question text (I forgot event in the title and in the first line), the actual import contained the full and correct java.awt.event.MouseListener though, which can be seen in the third edit of the question.

On this specific example, I was able to reproduce the behavior by uninstalling and reinstalling Python 2 more times and having the same compiler error two more times, and then solve the problem by reinstalling two more times.

In this case, would the question still be closable as "typo/non-reproducible"?

I've asked a question about an eclipse bug which occurred after I installed Python3 2 days ago, and after that I had to reinstall eclipse 3 times.

All of those 3 bugs were solved by reinstalling eclipse.

I asked about the latest bug I had here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69639614/compiler-not-accepting-import-java-awt-event-mouselistener-in-all-new-eclipse-pr

The question was closed as unreproducible. I also had 2 typos in my question originally, which would have caused the bug if I had mistyped them in my actual code, but I only mistyped them in the question text (I forgot event in the title and in the first line), the actual import contained the full and correct java.awt.event.MouseListener though, which can be seen in the 3rd edit of the question.

My meta question is, if a problem is solved by a reinstall is it unreproducible?

I'm also curious, if I'm able to reproduce the behavior by uninstalling and reinstalling Python 2 more times and having the same compiler error 2 more times, and then solve the problem by reinstalling 2 more times, would that make the question reproducible?

If a problem is solved by a software reinstall, is it unreproducible?

As an example, I've asked a question about an eclipse bug which occurred after I installed Python3 2 days ago, and after that I had to reinstall eclipse 3 times.

All of those 3 bugs were solved by reinstalling eclipse.

I asked about the latest bug I had here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69639614/compiler-not-accepting-import-java-awt-event-mouselistener-in-all-new-eclipse-pr

Eventually, the question was closed as "not reproducible or caused by typos".

Tangentially, I also had 2 typos in my question originally, which would have caused the bug if I had mistyped them in my actual code, but I only mistyped them in the question text (I forgot event in the title and in the first line), the actual import contained the full and correct java.awt.event.MouseListener though, which can be seen in the 3rd edit of the question.

On this specific example, I was able to reproduce the behavior by uninstalling and reinstalling Python 2 more times and having the same compiler error 2 more times, and then solve the problem by reinstalling 2 more times.

In this case, would the question still be closable as "typo/non-reproducible"?