Eclipse will not start and I haven't changed anything

Question

I haven\'t updated anything for at least a month. I was just working normally and suddenly the menus were all blank, so I decided to restart eclipse. I clicked \"close\" an

Answer 1

Today, I had the same problem. My eclipse refused to start. When I double clicked on Eclipse icon I was able to see splashscreen for a second and then nothing happen. Tried most of the solutions here: removed lock file, renamed workspace, tried to start Eclipse with different clean parameters. I even put a new copy of Eclispe and tried to start with a new workspace. Nothing!

My logs were showing bunch of errors from yesterday when my workstation was rebooted at 17:45.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 2 2014-12-17 17:45:12.178
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.ui.workbench".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException

In the end this very simple change (look below) saved my Eclipse together with my workspace!

SOLUTION:

I edited eclipse.ini and added following line:

-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin\javaw.exe

Eclipse has started again with all my projects inside! I hope this can help.