Unable to start Eclipse

[chinna kumar]

Hi Friends,
i have been using Eclipse since 6 months. i never had any problem in the past. but now when i try to start it says " problem in startup check the log".
And the following is the error log from the .meta directory....
cud anyone help me out!!!

!SESSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Dec 30, 2004 11:33:17.414
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processManifestFile(RegistryLoader.java:89)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processPluginPathFile(RegistryLoader.java:136)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processPluginPathEntry(RegistryLoader.java:127)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processManifestFiles(RegistryLoader.java:104)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.parseRegistry(RegistryLoader.java:63)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.parseRegistry(RegistryLoader.java:71)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.parsePlugins(InternalPlatform.java:779)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loadRegistry(InternalPlatform.java:723)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loaderStartup(InternalPlatform.java:574)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.startup(InternalBootLoader.java:1011)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:838)

[Damanjit Kaur]

It seems to be some problem relating to some file in C:\eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\manifests directory.

To fix the problem you can delete this directoy or even the whole configuration directory so when u start eclipse again this directory will again be created and perhaps you will have to import all your existing projects from workspace directory and then re-configure the settings in eclipse for project class path etc.