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Bug 329815 - Eclipse crashes while trying to load up
Summary: Eclipse crashes while trying to load up
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 149121
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-11-09 10:27 EST by Eric Roberts CLA
Modified: 2010-11-10 10:58 EST (History)
3 users (show)

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2010-11-09 10:30 EST, Eric Roberts CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Eric Roberts CLA 2010-11-09 10:27:30 EST 
Build Identifier: Latest Helios...cannot start Eclipse to get this info

When I start eclipse, I get the splash screen.  After about 10 seconds, the splash screen disappears and I get a alert box telling me that an error has occurred and it directs me to the .log file in .metadata.  This worked fine over the weekend on my Win 7 box and was fine Friday on this box (XP).  Nothing has changed to Eclipse or to either OS as far as I know from Friday to today (Tuesday).  I don't believe anything has been updated on the OS, Java, or Eclipse or any of it's plugins.  I will attach the log file after I submit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on Icon for Eclipse (linked to eclipse.exe)
2.  Error occurs
Comment 1 Eric Roberts CLA 2010-11-09 10:30:02 EST 
Created attachment 182727 [details]
.log file

This is the .log file that the alert directed me to.  If you need any other files, let me know.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2010-11-09 10:31:36 EST 
Did you try using another workspace?

> eclipse.exe -data C:\tmp-ws
Comment 3 Eric Roberts CLA 2010-11-09 11:34:41 EST 
I did find a way to correct the issue.  If I delete the metadata folder, eclipse will load, so it looks like something in the metadata folder became corrupted.
Comment 4 Eric Roberts CLA 2010-11-09 11:49:02 EST 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Did you try using another workspace?
> 
> > eclipse.exe -data C:\tmp-ws

Yes...i even tried downloading a fresh copy of eclipse to make sure it wasn't a plugin issue.  It looks like the metadata folder was corrupted.  I deleted that and the project files and it looks like it is good. I don;t know what caused the folder to be corrupted.
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2010-11-10 03:32:18 EST 
Looks like a duplicate of bug 149121.
Comment 6 Paul Webster CLA 2010-11-10 10:58:18 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 149121 ***