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:

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Answer 1

Get a backup copy of the .metadata/.plugin/org.eclipse.core.resources folder, then delete that folder and launch eclipse. That should launch the workspace, but all projects will be gone as org.eclipse.core.resources keeps a list of all projects.

Next, close eclipse properly and copy back org.eclipse.core.resources from back up to .metadata/.plugins/ folder overriding the existing one.

Open eclipse and things should work fine with all your projects back to normal.