Solve Eclipse showing empty dialog box in linux

All of a sudden my eclipse IDE started showing empty dialog box after working fine for some days. Most of the solutions found talks about Xulrunner problem that doesn’t work for me. A simple solution would be to just move your workspace folder to a different location or delete it if don’t have any important projects inside it and start eclipse again.Now you are good to go.

Is Ubuntu damaging my laptop hard drive?

I have been using ubuntu since 6.06 and loving it. I recently bought a new laptop and have discovered a problem it and ubuntu. It has a Western digital 320GB hard drive model: WB3200BEVT-22ZCT0 and ubuntu causes the drive temperature to increase to dangerously high levels while plugged in and while in battery the load_cycle_count seems to increase drastically. This is an old problem and have reported to been fixed but it’s not at least with this WD hard drives. I have used Ubuntu 9.04 , 9.10 and 10.04 in this laptop and all seems to have the problem.

While the laptop is plugged in the temperature of  drive seems to steadily rise to 54 °C  even while the system is at idle and the load_cycle_count increase is fairly normal and while working on battery the temperature of drive steadily returns to normal around 44 °C and there is a high increase of load_cycle_count values. According to the drive manufacturer’s website the maximum temperature of the drive while operating is 60 °C in ubuntu it comes pretty close to that.

I dual-boot ubuntu with windows vista that came with my laptop. While in vista my hard drive is perfectly fine both while on AC and on battery. While in idle or with minimum drive usage the drive average temperature is around 45-47 °C and load_cycle_count increase is normal. This is the case for both on AC and on battery.

I have reported a bug about this in launchpad bug #52195. Several others have reported about this problem like in bug #399978 and the bug itself has a number of duplicates, all relating to WD hard drives and also asked if anyone experience the same problem in ubuntu forums and it seems clearly I’m not the only one facing this issue. There hasn’t been any activity in bugs reported and hence this post to get some developer attention and sincerely hoping that this issue would probably sorted out in the next edition of ubuntu, the Maverick Meerkat.