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I have been using Eclipse Photon on Ubuntu 16.04 for a little while. Twice now it has had a glitch and prevents me from getting back into it. It hangs on the splash screen saying

Loading org.eclipse.tm.terminal.view.ui

If I start it from the command line, the last thing it says in the terminal window is:

com.google.gwt.eclipse.wtp.maven.GwtMavenComponentContributor.contribute(IMavenComponentBinder)

The last lines (minus the full stack trace) from the log are:

!SESSION 2018-10-17 13:54:42.690 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=4.8.0.I20180611-0500
java.version=1.8.0_45
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_GB
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

!ENTRY org.eclipse.egit.core 2 0 2018-10-17 13:54:54.327
!MESSAGE Builtin LFS support not present/detected
!STACK 0
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.BuiltinLFS cannot be found by org.eclipse.egit.core_5.0.0.201806131550-r
    at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:508)

I have found by experimentation that if rename in .metadata/.plugins:

org.eclipse.core.resources

(even though the directory is empty) then Eclipse will start. Alas, all my projects have gone. Perhaps that happened when the crunch occurred and so there is no way to recover anyway.

The crunch actually happened when I closed a Java editor window. I noticed that it paused for about 15 seconds. It came back to life and I left it for a few moments then pressed the top left exit button and confirmed that I did want to exit. This all went as usual, but then Eclipse got stuck when trying to start it again.

If anyone knows a recovery method, or a way to stop it from happening then I'd appreciate knowing about it.

Thanks in advance.

M. A. Wheadon
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  • Try to start Eclipse with the argument `-clean`. If this does not work, try to start Eclipse with a new workspace `-data ` and switch to or import from the old workspace. – howlger Oct 17 '18 at 13:32
  • @howlger - thanks for those suggestions. I should have said that I tried -clean and it did not seem to make a difference. In the end I did switch to a new workspace and then I imported my projects again via File->Import=>General=>Existing Projects into Workspace, and that worked very well. I was up and running very quickly. Thanks. – M. A. Wheadon Oct 18 '18 at 14:44

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