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Build Identifier: 201111221000 Since a few days ago, every time I exit Eclipse, it fails while "saving workspace state" with the following: Problems occurred while trying to save the state of the workbench. Could not write workspace metadata '<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/332.tree'. java.lang.NullPointerException At the time of the failure, this is a "ls -lt" of that ".root" directory: --------------------- total 12000 drwx------+ 3 dk068x Domain Users 0 Dec 22 08:38 ./ -rwx------+ 1 dk068x Domain Users 13607 Dec 22 08:38 332.tree* -rwx------+ 1 dk068x Domain Users 77552 Dec 21 17:48 .markers.snap* drwx------+ 6 dk068x Domain Users 0 Dec 16 11:10 ../ -rwx------+ 1 dk068x Domain Users 19274 Dec 16 09:11 .markers* -rwx------+ 1 dk068x Domain Users 12172581 Dec 16 09:11 331.tree* drwx------+ 2 dk068x Domain Users 0 Jun 23 2010 .indexes/ ----------------- I looked in the .log file, and there is no stack trace for this NPE, or any messages that seem to be relevant to this. Reproducible: Always
After several days of this symptom repeating consistently and without variation, it wasn't long after I filed this that I stopped seeing the symptom. I haven't seen it since.
It looks like a duplicate of bug 352867. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 352867 ***