I used Eclipse 4.4 M7 for my Java development, developing on Java 7, using development kit 7. I’m on Windows 7 x64. I don’t even know where to discuss Eclipse problems at, so this is the best one, other than Bugzilla.
For some reason, since Sunday, May 18th, I wasn’t able to run Eclipse. Here are the following occurrences I found:
- When Eclipse is executed, nothing pops up. No welcome banners, no programs appearing in the taskbar, etc.
- Opened Task Manager, only to see there’s no Eclipse in the Applications tab.
- Went to check on Processes tab, and see Eclipse running with 92KB memory. But there are no CPU loads or anything that tells me it is actively running.
- Tried to terminate the process, no responses.
- Tried to terminate the process tree, no responses.
- Tried using “taskkill /F” on Eclipse using command prompt. Command prompt reports successful attempt, but Eclipse is still running in Processes tab.
- Downloaded Process Hacker, run as admin, tried terminating eclipse.exe and its trees, fails to do so.
- Tried running Eclipse via command prompt, hoping for signs of error messages or something. Ended up with a stalled command prompt with no feedbacks. Can no longer terminate command prompt.
- Tried using Ctrl+C to terminate command prompt, but there’s no response.
- Tried reinstalling Java Runtime Environment 7 and JDK 7. That didn’t work.
- Tried removing and reextracting Eclipse 4.4 M7 from a ZIP file downloaded from Oracle. Doesn’t work.
- Looked online for more info on this, but I came up dry.
- Deleted workspace metadata, that fails.
- Right now, I have 7 eclipse.exe processes not running and all have 92KB memory footprints in Task Manager.
What else can I do?