Unable to Acquire the State Change Lock

Question

Our products are using the latest production-ready release of SWT, 3.7.2. Now since no one back then knew what the next Java version would be called (and how would they know that 8 came after 7, that's like higher mathematics), we were forced to swap the org.eclipse.osgi from 3.7.2 to 3.10.0, so that we can now support Java 8. While that's maybe not the best of ideas, in theory it should work.

Of course, being the major screw-up that Eclipse Luna is, there is this one "error" when we start our applications (about 50 percent of the time, I'd guess):

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Unable to acquire the state change lock for the module: osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.eclipse.osgi"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="3.10.0.v20140606-1445"; singleton:="true" [id=0] STARTED [STARTED] invalid
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.lockStateChange(Module.java:329)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.SystemModule.init(SystemModule.java:44)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.SystemModule.start(SystemModule.java:170)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.start(EquinoxBundle.java:393)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.start(EquinoxBundle.java:412)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.simpleconfigurator.ConfigApplier.startBundles(ConfigApplier.java:307)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.simpleconfigurator.ConfigApplier.install(ConfigApplier.java:108)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.simpleconfigurator.SimpleConfiguratorImpl.applyConfiguration(SimpleConfiguratorImpl.java:129)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.simpleconfigurator.SimpleConfiguratorImpl.applyConfiguration(SimpleConfiguratorImpl.java:143)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.simpleconfigurator.Activator.start(Activator.java:48)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl$3.run(BundleContextImpl.java:771)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl$3.run(BundleContextImpl.java:1)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:764)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:721)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.startWorker0(EquinoxBundle.java:936)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle$EquinoxModule.startWorker(EquinoxBundle.java:319)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.doStart(Module.java:571)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:439)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.incStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1582)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.incStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1562)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.doContainerStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1533)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.SystemModule.startWorker(SystemModule.java:242)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.doStart(Module.java:571)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:439)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.SystemModule.start(SystemModule.java:172)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.start(EquinoxBundle.java:393)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.start(EquinoxBundle.java:412)
at org.eclipse.osgi.launch.Equinox.start(Equinox.java:115)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:320)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:232)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:622)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1386)

There's not much information on the web what the problem is, most suggest to just delete the workspace, but for most it only happens when starting up Eclipse, not the final applications - nonetheless, I deleted workspaces and the runtime-folders. Nothing helps. The "error" gets thrown in the exported product as well, but as far as I can tell, everything still works as expected.

Is there a way to fix it? And if not, is there a way to just hide that stupid exception (disable logging for a moment, clearing the log, whatever, I'm not picky)?

Answer 1

I solved problem by following these simple steps,

1. Go to your eclipse directory and open configuration directory.
2. open org.eclipse.osgi directory.
3. open .manager folder.
4. Delete .fileTableLock file.
5. Restart your eclipse.

Answer 2

This looks like the framework start up starts simpleconfigurator which tries to start the framework again. The framework detects this recursion and throws an exception to escape it. The problem appears to be in simpleconfigurator attempting the start the framework which is starting it.

Answer 3

I faced same issue.Deleting the given .log file from configuration folder and restarting eclipse should resolve your problem.

Answer 4

I use Red Hat Developer Studio 10.4 (Eclipse 4.6) and i tried use Eclipse Checkstyle plugin.

After install i restarted my IDE and received the crash notification.

I tried all suggestions but only when i delete a file called framework.info.34 my problem was solved.

This file is in %eclipse_home%/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi folder.