Motivation: Sometimes, Eclipse on Ubuntu (specifically, 11.10) hangs beyond recovery. It eventually crashes or I have to
The only solution till now was to create a new workspace which leads to reconfiguring the plugins, downloading code from repository -- a complete waste of time.
Requisites: Access to corrupted workspace directory.
Steps: Since changing workspace fixed the problem. I knew that something has got corrupted in the workspace. With a little poking around in
Long story short,
Hope this helps.
kill -9
it. When, I start it again, the splash screen gets stuck at about 70%.The only solution till now was to create a new workspace which leads to reconfiguring the plugins, downloading code from repository -- a complete waste of time.
Requisites: Access to corrupted workspace directory.
Steps: Since changing workspace fixed the problem. I knew that something has got corrupted in the workspace. With a little poking around in
$WORKSPACE/.metadata
, I came to realize that at least one plugin's (with .ui
in its name) metadata has gone bad. So, I started hit and trial by moving files from $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins
to another location and starting Eclipse. (starting Eclipse causes recreation of the moved plugin metadata file).Long story short,
- look into Eclipse log file in the workspace, find out which plugin is doing the mischief.
- Delete/move the corresponding file from
$WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins
directory.
org.eclipse.ui.workbench
and org.eclipse.ui.ide
from $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins
. And start Eclipse.Hope this helps.
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