Description Genady Beryozkin 2002-06-08 17:21:49 EDT

I get a dialog box telling me to look in the log,
where I find the following exception:

It could be reported in a nicer way.

!SESSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 יונ 09, 2002 01:29:34.939
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	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.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:244)
	at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:693)
	at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:526)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	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:873)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:732)
	at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:462)
	... 7 more
Caused by: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: 
The platform metadata area is already in use by another platform instance, or
there was a failure
in deleting the old lock file.  If no other platform instances are running,
delete the 
lock file (C:\eclipse\workspace\.metadata\.lock) and try starting the platform
again.
	at
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.createLockFile(InternalPlatform.java:195)
	at
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loaderStartup(InternalPlatform.java:546)
	... 14 more