eclipse galileo not responding ubuntu 64-bit

Question

I'm having a problem with eclipse galileo on ubuntu 64-bit system. when ever i open it the splash scree turns gray but keeps loading and then when eclipse opens it shows the secure storage password request and hangs. I dont know what could be wrong, it used to work fine before, if you have or had the same problem please tell me what to do

Partite

What did you change since it doesn't work anymore? Do you have the original Sun JDK installed? – Monarch

yesterday i only installed the latest updates for ubuntu from the update manager. – Partite

Answer 1

Try clean $HOME$/.eclipse directory.

Its better to just rename at first.

See what happens

Abingdon

Answer 2

I have had this happen on Galileo (3.5) and Helios (3.6).

If you delete .eclipse you will lose all software installed through the Help | Install New Software menu option.

It is enough to delete the file ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security/secure_storage

Inhabitancy

This did the trick for me and was the quickest fix. I had already done the above relating to the java-alternatives and I still got this issue. – Filmy

Answer 3

This happens to me whenever I shutdown eclipse with the history tab open.

While not the best solution, to solve it I start eclipse with sudo. I let it finish loading, then select a different tab than history. I Shutdown eclipse, then I recursively change the owner of the files in .metadata back to my main user.

In case you need the command: (in my case I run this from /home/wally/workspace)

 sudo chown -R wally:wally .metadata

As far as I can tell, there's some race condition going on.

(also, it's likely that you won't use exactly "wally:wally" but "your username:your group)

Contamination

Answer 4

Try this:

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

then run eclipse from command line from the same terminal window.

Patronage

Answer 5

I would suggest removing openjdk from synaptic and install sun java. Once you do that , use "sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun" to use sun-java as the default JRE.

Eclipse used to work really slow for me, and this method worked. Maybe it helps you too.

Sleeping