Eclipse hangs at startup showing only the splash screen

35 Responses to Eclipse hangs at startup showing only the splash screen

1. Jim says:

   March 30, 2010 at 9:33 pm

   This has indeed solved the same problem that I was having. Can you provide any background on the root cause of the problem?
2. Olaf says:

   March 31, 2010 at 2:16 pm

   No, I lost enough time with that and after that I didn’t feel like digging deep into that issue. All I know from the doc is that this package provides basic support for managing a workspace and its resources. For me it was sufficient to address the symptoms. ;-)
3. sam says:

   May 14, 2010 at 11:18 am

   Thank you very much for sharing this information, you saved me and therefore i shall love you!

   The last time my eclipse was running, was before i tinkered with installing oracle. This left my system in a mess and i had absolutely no clue which of the 1000 things i had to touch during this process was now causing my eclipse to freeze at startup. There was no single hint in the eclipse log files or console. After applying your trick i was amazed, finally seeing it starting again.
   There was one problem, the workspace seemed to be completely empty. However it turned out that only the working sets lost their project associations, the “Window Working Set” still had all projects and so far everything appears to be back in good order and condition.

   Once again thank you, and may this little secret save many more desperate eclipters in their darkest hours ;-]
4. John Leo says:

   June 16, 2010 at 4:56 am

   Thanks for saving me boatloads of time. Great solution. I’m sure it won’t be the only time I have to use it.
5. Trent says:

   July 27, 2010 at 2:25 am

   Thanks for posting your fix. It just happened to me :)
6. zack says:

   November 18, 2010 at 7:10 am

   Thanks for the fix. Eclipse was hanging at the splash, and I used something similar to your trick to get it going:

   I had a single project that was the likely culprit (subclipse looked to be freaking out).

   1. cd .metainfo/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.project
   2. mv myProject /tmp
   3. open eclipse, close all windows, close myProject
   4. close eclipse
   5. (in same dir as #1) mv myProject /tmp/myProject.crap
   6. (in same dir as #1) mv /tmp/myProject ./
   7. start eclipse, open myProject, it was back to normal with all svn info intact

   Env: Eclipse 3.6 (major plugins: subclipse,gwt), OSX 10.6.4

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8. Alan Lord says:

   February 14, 2011 at 2:18 pm

   @zack,

   Thanks for this.

   It just happened to me. I have lots of projects but it was the last one I was working causing the lock on startup.

   Your suggestion seems to have resolved the issue.

   Cheers

   Al
9. Sibusiso says:

   March 1, 2011 at 8:26 pm

   Thanks for saving me. My workspace is working like a charm.
10. Sibusiso says:

    March 1, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks for saving me. My workspace is working like a charm.

    Run a project clean and update maven project configurations
11. Dan Devine says:

    March 3, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    Thanks Olaf. Fixed me too.
12. Hari says:

    March 22, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    This worked for me too! Thanks!
13. Tomas says:

    March 29, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    Thank you, thank you, thank you…
    It’s works fine..
    cheers
14. Rom58 says:

    April 10, 2011 at 12:51 am

    Worked like a charm, thanks!
15. Wayne Baswell says:

    June 15, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    This works. Many thanks.
16. Don Denoncourt says:

    June 16, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks. Big help

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18. Axel says:

    July 12, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    Finally !! Thank you so much.
    This issue was driving me crazy and this is the only procedure that really worked.
19. Kate says:

    August 21, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    Thank you! It’s a magic!
20. Umesh says:

    August 25, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Thanks Man .. !!! My eclipse crashed after an internal error and hanging on restart. Thanks to your post, it works fine now .. :P
21. John Munsch says:

    August 30, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    You sir, rock. That fixed a nasty problem that was preventing startup for me. That should be in the official troubleshooting or FAQ or something. Hell, that should probably be something Eclipse is smart enough to do itself to heal.
22. Michael Shafrir says:

    September 23, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    This solved my issue with Eclipse, thanks!
23. yang says:

    September 30, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    thanks!!!

    note that you have to
    “CLOSE ALL your editor tabs”

    at first I missed that
24. Andy says:

    October 3, 2011 at 11:53 am

    Fixed it :) Thanks so much!
25. Padma says:

    October 7, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    Thanks for the helpful tip!
26. Mark says:

    October 31, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    Another Happy Customer here ;)
27. Yoav says:

    November 1, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    It worked for me too! Thanks ;)
28. Mikael says:

    November 3, 2011 at 10:07 am

    Thanks, saved my day!
    /Mikael
29. darwinian says:

    November 24, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Worked for me too. Thanks!
30. XR says:

    November 25, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    Thanks a lot! It saved me!
31. Don says:

    December 13, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Brilliant! Thank you for posting this.
32. Pawel Niemiec says:

    January 13, 2012 at 10:48 am

    Thank’s a lot for this tip! It works fine for me.
33. Jerry G. says:

    January 18, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    Thanks for this tip! It was a godsend! Your post along with Zack’s tweak helped me out tremendously. Kudos!
34. Matthias says:

    February 1, 2012 at 8:45 am

    Hey, thanks for saving me a lot of time!
35. Randy Valencia says:

    February 2, 2012 at 4:45 am

    Thank you for posting this solution. Great job!