Eclipse Indigo Hangs : Java was started but returned exit code

Eclipse suddenly started to hang when starting up around “Loading Workbench”. Eclipse stopped responding and you get the dialog to close the program.
The error shown afterwards:
“Java was started but returned exit code=-805306369″
If you are running java 1.6u21 then look at Eclipse Bug 319514 and The Oracle/Sun fix on Eclipse wiki site.
This however wasn’t the problem as I was running Java 1.6.0_31b05. Tried to uninstall and reinstall Java but no success. Tried to look through the plugins I was using but nothing.
The error was due to a corrupt workspace. As I disable the workspace check in the startup I couldn’t select another workspace since Eclipse wouldn’t start. Rename the workspace e.g. to “workspace1″. Eclipse will start and create a new uncorrupted workspace and work without any problems. Afterwards you can import your project into your new workspace and in the end remove the old corrupted workspace.
Alternatively, I solve this type of hangs as follows. Goto Workspace folder Backup .metadata folder some where and delete it from workspace folder, now open eclipse IDE and a .metadata folder is created. Now close eclipse and copy all the contents from .metadata folder which is backed up into the new .metadata file ,now open Eclipse it should start normally.



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