Eclipse hangs on loading workbench

Question

My eclipse stops loading workbench. I tried already starting with ./eclipse --clean

When starting from console it throws following exception:

java.lang         


        

Answer 1

It might also help to try to load and save the workspace with a newer eclipse version:

I am using eclipse 3.8. When starting up the splash screen would hang. There were no error messages in the log. What helped was to open the workspace with eclipse 4.2.2. After opening and closing the workspace I was able to load it again with 3.8.