Bug#684604: eclipse 3.8 hangs on splash screen if workspace uses unavailable plugins

[Eric Lavarde]

Package: eclipse
Version: 3.8.0~rc4-1
Followup-For: Bug #684604

Hi,

I have had the same (or a very similar) problem. I have solved it on my
own but I wanted to tell my experience to help for a better resolution.

Basically, I had done a complete reinstall of my PC (formerly with
architecture i386, new with amd64, in case it's important), but kept my
home drive (with workspaces and ~/.eclipse directories).
Using the command /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse -consoleLog -debug, I noticed
error messages regarding missing plugin libraries (com.android....
Sorry, I didn't keep it).

The solution was then to open a new workspace, reinstall all the missing
plugins, and then restart into the old "faulty" workspace, which worked
without further issue. One of my tries was to delete ~/.eclipse but it
didn't help, but perhaps it was part of the final resolution, difficult to
tell now.

Two last remarks:

1. Perhaps not all plugins lead to this issue, I suspect strongly the
Android ADT plugin and/or dependencies, but I had other plugins like
egit.
2. Even if it's possible to overcome this issue of missing plugins, it
should still be handled more nicely by eclipse, providing a clear
message to the user about missing plugins and allowing him/her to
install these missing plugins, without having to create a new workspace
to do this.

Hope this helps,
Eric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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