Hello there, I had the same issue on a Debian SID x86_64. As a sid, there was no eclipse update, only an install on July: eclipse:amd64 (3.8.0~rc4-1) The only openjdk update is from October 23rd openjdk-6-jre:amd64 6b24-1.11.4-3 -> 6b24-1.11.5-1
The problem appeared after the SVN plugin uninstall (because of a plugin problem) : when asked to reboot, I agreed and Eclipse would stop at the point "Loading Workbench". Killing the graphic application launched what seemed to be a deadlock, as the java process was taking all CPU time. A simple "kill pid" stopped the process. Unfortunately, I have not kept the details (haven't made a strace) What was done: aptitude remove eclipse aptitude install eclipse => Nothing changed aptitude install openjdk-7-jdk update-alternatives --config java => I chose java7 and ran eclipse from a term. This solved the issue. I than chose java6 (with update-alternative). Eclipse launches successfully. Tried to launch eclipse form a graphical menu with success. No ~/.eclipse/ were deleted. $ java -version java version "1.6.0_24" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.5) (6b24-1.11.5-1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode) $ java -version java version "1.7.0_03" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.1.3) (7u3-2.1.3-1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode) Eclipse packages: LANG=en_US dpkg -l eclipse\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=================================-=====================-=====================-======================================================================== ii eclipse 3.8.0~rc4-1 all Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE un eclipse-common-nls <none> (no description available) un eclipse-ecj <none> (no description available) ii eclipse-jdt 3.8.0~rc4-1 all Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT) un eclipse-jdt-gcj <none> (no description available) ii eclipse-pde 3.8.0~rc4-1 amd64 Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) un eclipse-pde-gcj <none> (no description available) ii eclipse-platform 3.8.0~rc4-1 amd64 Eclipse platform without development plug-ins un eclipse-platform-common <none> (no description available) ii eclipse-platform-data 3.8.0~rc4-1 all Eclipse platform without development plug-ins (data) un eclipse-platform-gcj <none> (no description available) un eclipse-platform-nls <none> (no description available) un eclipse-plugin-cvs <none> (no description available) ii eclipse-rcp 3.8.0~rc4-1 amd64 Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) un eclipse-rcp-gcj <none> (no description available) un eclipse-source <none> (no description available) Hope it helps. -- Dave Tapesar
