Eclipse Error On Startup

Question

Eclipse was running fine last night, but this morning I tried starting it up and I came upon this error:

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Here's the log

!SESSION 2010-04-07 17:58:37.208 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I20080617-2000
java.version=1.6.0_13
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2010-04-07 17:58:37.457
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.osgi.storagemanager.StorageManager.updateTable(StorageManager.java:512)
at org.eclipse.osgi.storagemanager.StorageManager.open(StorageManager.java:694)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.BaseStorage.initFileManager(BaseStorage.java:208)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.BaseStorage.initialize(BaseStorage.java:142)
at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.BaseAdaptor.initializeStorage(BaseAdaptor.java:124)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:180)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:152)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.createFramework(OSGi.java:90)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.<init>(OSGi.java:31)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:286)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:549)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)

Any help? I really need this up and running, and reinstalling and resetting all of my plugins and settings just isn't an option at the moment.

Aut

I suppose there is some bug in your eclipse configuration. But I do not know how to check which configuration file contains an error. strace would not work here I guess... – Uniaxial

For others: you can also follow this question at eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=tree&th=165940& – Marcelinomarcell

Answer 1

A Best shot would be to use a fresh copy of eclipse and point the workspace location that you were using in the old eclipse. By this way, you will not lose your settings and will 100% avoid the startup error.

Fussbudget

What about plugins/perspectives? I'm using it mainly to develop for Android and reloading all of the SDK's settings would be a huge pain. – Aut

Ended up doing this after I realized that my Android SDK and settings were stored in a separate folder, not with Eclipse. Plus I was two versions of Eclipse behind the latest anyways. – Aut

Answer 2

I had the same issue. After some debugging i tried deleting the following folders from my eclipse directory

./configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.manager
./configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager

That fixed the issue for me. No side effects. I think this is just a cache because it recreates itself on the fly. The source code doesn't seem to treat it with any special importance if it is not found, but there is a bug that tries to parse an empty string on line 512.

Looking into the source of org.eclipse.osgi it looks like these files are somehow managed with a timestamp, so if you're doing anything that will mess with the timestamps then you'll run into this issue. I use git to manage my eclipse installation so i can revert to an earlier version if a newly installed feature starts stepping on my karma. Ran into this issue after reverting. Added it to .gitignore.

Conservator

Actually it's better to just add both ./configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime and ./configuration/org.eclipse.osgi to .gitignore. These folders change everytime you open eclipse. – Conservator

Hi, I've same problem here. But I can't find ./configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.manager or ./configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager on my workspace. Can you help me to figure it out? – Symbolize

Answer 3

Try at least to restart eclipse with a -clean option.
Check also (just in case) your disk space! That can occur when not enough space is left on the disk, since the code shows it is reading strings (supposed to be Integer) from a file.

Try also upgrading your java used to start eclipse to the latest one (u19 instead of u13)

This error stacktrace has been reported in bug 113596 about some version of Vista: what OS are you using, and has it been updated recently? (by Windows update for instance)

Marcelinomarcell

It's probably Vista. It just did something to my System in an update, but I'm not quite sure what. It enabled the UAC which I had disabled, so it could have also done something that messed with Eclipse. – Aut