Comment 11 for bug 68053

When I launch Eclipse, the logo appears and the progress bar gets about halfway through. Then an "Error notifying a preference change listener" dialog appears.

Clicking Okay makes the dialog box immediately re-appear. The cycle continues until I do a "killalll java".

I'm not sure if this is the same bug everyone else is having. I've tried deleing my .eclipse folder and installing a different combination of Eclipse packages, but no go.

The temporary solution is to remove the ~/workspace/.metadata folder. As long as this folder is missing, Eclipse will launch. Unfortunately this means re-creating the entire workspace from scratch every single time.