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I'm having a problem with eclipse galileo on ubuntu 64-bit system. when ever i open it the splash scree turns gray but keeps loading and then when eclipse opens it shows the secure storage password request and hangs. I dont know what could be wrong, it used to work fine before, if you have or had the same problem please tell me what to do

+1  A: 

Try clean $HOME$/.eclipse directory.

Its better to just rename at first.

See what happens

Alexey
+1  A: 

I would suggest removing openjdk from synaptic and install sun java. Once you do that , use "sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun" to use sun-java as the default JRE.

Eclipse used to work really slow for me, and this method worked. Maybe it helps you too.

Suvir
I had the same issue and your solution solved it ! I've already done this before, I think ubuntu's upgrade perhaps configured back the openjdk.I encourage anybody seriously using java software to do this, openjdk seems to work really slower.Thanks anyway for the reminder ;)
Benoit
A: 

Try this:

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

then run eclipse from command line from the same terminal window.

armandino
A: 

I have had this happen on Galileo (3.5) and Helios (3.6).

If you delete .eclipse you will lose all software installed through the Help | Install New Software menu option.

It is enough to delete the file ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security/secure_storage

rogerh