Eclipse Error On Startup

Question

Eclipse was running fine last night, but this morning I tried starting it up and I came upon this error:

Here's the log

!SESSION 2010-04-07 17:58:37.208 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I20080617-2000
java.version=1.6.0_13
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2010-04-07 17:58:37.457
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.osgi.storagemanager.StorageManager.updateTable(StorageManager.java:512)
at org.eclipse.osgi.storagemanager.StorageManager.open(StorageManager.java:694)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.BaseStorage.initFileManager(BaseStorage.java:208)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.BaseStorage.initialize(BaseStorage.java:142)
at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.BaseAdaptor.initializeStorage(BaseAdaptor.java:124)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:180)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:152)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.createFramework(OSGi.java:90)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.OSGi.<init>(OSGi.java:31)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:286)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:549)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)

Any help? I really need this up and running, and reinstalling and resetting all of my plugins and settings just isn't an option at the moment.

Answer 1

A Best shot would be to use a fresh copy of eclipse and point the workspace location that you were using in the old eclipse. By this way, you will not lose your settings and will 100% avoid the startup error.

Answer 2

Try at least to restart eclipse with a -clean option.
Check also (just in case) your disk space! That can occur when not enough space is left on the disk, since the code shows it is reading strings (supposed to be Integer) from a file.

Try also upgrading your java used to start eclipse to the latest one (u19 instead of u13)

This error stacktrace has been reported in bug 113596 about some version of Vista: what OS are you using, and has it been updated recently? (by Windows update for instance)