Failed to initialize monitor Thread: Unable to establish loopback connection

Question

Since yesterday suddenly my Eclipse does not work anymore. The error is \"Failed to initialize monitor Thread: Unable to establishe loopback connection\". I googled and trie

Answer 1

I came here to add that in my case the solution that worked was to change eclipse.ini. I did try ALL the other answers in this thread and in other threads (reinstalling Eclipse, reinstalling the Android SDK, reinstalling Java 7 as well, rebooting, checking if Toledo was installed, etc). After an exhaustive google search, I came across this:

http://www.java.net/node/703177

However, I am not knowledgeable enough to understand why it worked. If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Thanks