Eclipse won't start, log error says: ObjectNotFoundException: Tree element

Question

Last night my machine restarted while Eclipse Galileo was open. No big deal, right?

This morning, I started my machine and tried to open Eclipse. Instead of openin

Answer 1

Check your environment variables _JAVA_OPTION path. I had HP UFT installed on my system and I set _JAVA_OPTION to IGNOREME_JAVA_OPTION for both system and environment variable. After reboot, eclipse showed the same error " check log file". Removed the IGNOREME and eclipse no issues. This could be another possibility that could be looked at to fix the eclipse.

Hope this helps.