Eclipse is freezing itself before getting started

I've been trying to open Eclipse to start my work today, and it freezes everytime during load.

My Eclipse is Helios. Someone told me I should remove a file called .lock from .metadata folder, but still did开发者_运维技巧n't work.

Does anyone have any idea of how do I "melt" this thing up?

ps: I opened it yesterday with no problems.

Have you already tried to start Eclipse with a -clean parameter? Sometimes this can resolve some issues..

I would suggest a (big) problem with a plugin in Eclipse.. because project plugins or runtimes will execute later.

Create a new workspace and repimport your projects from your old workspace. If you have a vcs, you can re-checkout them.

Start it with the -clean option.

It should take a bit longer (depends on your eclipse configuration and workspace, but if nothing is really broken, it will get it to work).

I believe something is wrong with your workspace. I typically remove current and create new one in such case. It usually takes up to 5 minutes (if I have to add 20 projects). In most cases it takes less.

I have experienced something similar when launching Eclipse after having to force close it for some reason. If it always hangs when loading the SVN plugin — like in your screenshot — it is likely to be related to that. In this case I suggest the following:

• back up your current workspace
• launch Eclipse with the -data command line argument to specify a different workspace folder
• if Eclipse starts up successfully, try to import your projects from the original workspace or even better from SVN