Eclipse loops endlessly: Invoking 'Maven Project Builder'

Question

Ugh! My Eclipse is stuck in an endless loop:

• No operations to display at this time
• Refreshing Workspace Building
• Workspace. Invoking \'Maven Pro

Answer 1

I had the same problem. It turns out that I was running Eclipse with the pipe (|) operator, running another process in parallel. The other process was jamming my Eclipse thread. Once I shut down the other process, Eclipse worked fine.