Eclipse locked up when building workspace

Yesterday eclipse worked as expected. But when starting up this morning it hangs forever (at least for to long for me to wait for it) on “building workspace “.

After excluding the ususal suspects (subversive, m2eclipse, mac osx firewall) it turned out – this time- , that one project referenced an outdated builder (org.openarchitectureware.base.oawBuilder) that was removed from my system some months ago. It seems that I forgot that particular project when migrating from oaw to the eclipse modelling project.

Removing the builder manually from the .project-file enabled eclipse to build the workspace and me to hack my first lines of code this morning.

And I have absolutely no idea why it suddenly stopped working. Or the other way around: why it did work over the last months.

“Update SVN Cache” locked eclipse

This morning Eclipse was locked after starting up. The progress bar indicated “Update SVN cache” as the blocking thread .
I restarted eclipse several times, including with “-clean” option, but that produced no result.

After fiddling with eclipse and railed at Polarion for some time, I remember

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Don’t rename Eclipse.app

Don’t rename Eclipse.app! At least, don’t do it on MacOS X. I did it, because I have several Eclipse versions installed and I wanted to distinguish them in the Dock. This caused Eclipse to crash on startup. But not immediately. It took some time untill the error emerged and this made it difficult for me to relate the startup failure to the renaming of the app. Kompletten Artikel lesen