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

After some investigation about file dates I solved the same issue (which is a randomly recurrent trouble on my Kepler) by simply deleting the following file in my local workspace: .metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.core\variablesAndContainers.dat

with negligible impact on the workspace restoring.

I hope it can help someone else...