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Error starting Eclipse Indigo

I have been using eclipse for a few years now for the majority of my development now fr all of my development, recenly I upgraded to the Indigo release of Eclipse. This morning on the train I was presented with a popup directing me to a logfile with the error below:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2011-10-27 07:41:06.158
!MESSAGE Startup error
!STACK 1
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initializeProperties(Framework.java:378)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.initialize(Framework.java:200)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.(Framework.java:162)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.startup(EclipseStarter.java:261)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	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)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
	at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1356)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.UniversalUniqueIdentifier.getIPAddress(UniversalUniqueIdentifier.java:146)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.UniversalUniqueIdentifier.computeNodeAddress(UniversalUniqueIdentifier.java:113)
	at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.UniversalUniqueIdentifier.(UniversalUniqueIdentifier.java:35)
	... 12 more

The fix that I found to resolve the crash was to delete the preferences (plist) file for Eclipse on the mac. The file is called ‘org.eclipse.eclipse.plist’ and can be found by navigating to ‘/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/’.

I deleted the file and tried starting Eclipse and it has been smooth sailing from there.

I would love to know if others are having this issue? and is it something I can expect to be doing often?