[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Eclipse cannot start because of org.ec

[miles.daffin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Miles Daffin)]

Hi All,

Many of our users have been having this issue with Eclipse 3.4 of and on 
over the past year. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Eclipse fails to 
start. The error in the timestamped configuration error logs is always the 
same (I can provide the full stack trace if required):

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exception in 
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.simpleconfigurator.Activator.start() of 
bundle org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.
<snip>
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The state indicates the bundle 
is resolved
at 
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.getResolutionFailureMessage(AbstractBundle.java:1381)
<snip>

In desperation someone found this thread and tried the solution suggested 
there, which worked:

http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t116650.html#92258119

Is this a bug? If so has someone raised it before? Please advise.

Thanks,

Miles