Lombok Eclipse issue: "Requesting Java AST from selection"

Question

I have Lombok plugin installed in my Eclipse. It was working fine till now since many days. All of a sudden I am frequently getting a popup in my Eclipse with the following details:

An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
lombok/launch/PatchFixesHider$PatchFixes


An internal error occurred during: "Requesting Java AST from selection".
lombok/launch/PatchFixesHider$PatchFixes

The Eclipse error log has this:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 2 2016-08-29 13:18:38.631
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.ui.workbench".
!STACK 0
java.lang.LinkageError: lombok/launch/PatchFixesHider$PatchFixes
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.search.OccurrencesFinder.addUsage(OccurrencesFinder.java)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.search.OccurrencesFinder.visit(OccurrencesFinder.java:158)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.QualifiedName.accept0(QualifiedName.java:168)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode.accept(ASTNode.java:2711)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode.acceptChild(ASTNode.java:2759)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.PackageDeclaration.accept0(PackageDeclaration.java:225)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode.accept(ASTNode.java:2711)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode.acceptChild(ASTNode.java:2759)

Eclipse version :

Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.

Version: Neon Release (4.6.0)
Build id: 20160613-1800

This popup is occurring quite frequently and its very annoying.Does anyone knows the solution to fix this?

Answer 1

Removed older jar and updated with latest lombok jar (version 1.16.10).. restarted my system. this fixed this issue. Not sure what was the cause of this issue though.

Answer 2

Had the same issue, restarting Eclipse was sufficient for me.