Eclipse indexing not working

Question

I am using CDT in Eclipse 3.5.2 Galileo in Ubuntu.

My eclipse\'s indexer doesn\'t work at times. By that I mean when I ctrl click a function it says

Answer 1

I was having the same problem and it turns out that the index folder was owned by root (I must have run Eclipse as a root once for some reason) I reclaimed the project folder using sudo chown -R username projectfolderpath and problem solved.