I had started to calculate metrics for a large project and clicked the little red square icon to "Abort all ongoing and pending calculations". Afterward, I couldn't get the metrics plug-in to do anything, so I exited Eclipse and restarted. Still nothing. When I looked in .metadata/.log, I saw many errors. The first error on restarting was:
!SESSION 2010-08-10 20:54:23.140 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20100211-1343
java.version=1.6.0_11
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_NZ
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86
!ENTRY net.sourceforge.metrics 4 4 2010-08-10 20:59:14.203
!MESSAGE Could not open/create jdbm database
!STACK 0
java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.seek(Native Method)
at jdbm.recman.RecordFile.synch(RecordFile.java:369)
at jdbm.recman.TransactionManager.synchronizeBlocks(TransactionManager.java:211)
at jdbm.recman.TransactionManager.recover(TransactionManager.java:190)
at jdbm.recman.TransactionManager.<init>(TransactionManager.java:103)
at jdbm.recman.RecordFile.<init>(RecordFile.java:102)
at jdbm.recman.BaseRecordManager.<init>(BaseRecordManager.java:139)
at jdbm.recman.Provider.createRecordManager(Provider.java:88)
at jdbm.RecordManagerFactory.createRecordManager(RecordManagerFactory.java:118)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.core.sources.Cache.initRecordManager(Cache.java:77)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.core.sources.Cache.<init>(Cache.java:68)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.core.sources.Cache.<clinit>(Cache.java:56)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.core.sources.Dispatcher.getAbstractMetricSource(Dispatcher.java:148)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.ui.MetricsView.setSelection(MetricsView.java:381)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.ui.MetricsView.setJavaElement(MetricsView.java:231)
at net.sourceforge.metrics.ui.MetricsView.selectionChanged(MetricsView.java:309)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.AbstractSelectionService.fireSelection(AbstractSelectionService.java:156)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.AbstractSelectionService$1.selectionChanged(AbstractSelectionService.java:62)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer$2.run(Viewer.java:162)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:888)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:48)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:175)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer.fireSelectionChanged(Viewer.java:160)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.updateSelection(StructuredViewer.java:2132)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handleSelect(StructuredViewer.java:1160)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$4.widgetSelected(StructuredViewer.java:1190)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.fireSelectionEvent(OpenStrategy.java:228)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$4(OpenStrategy.java:222)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$1.handleEvent(OpenStrategy.java:389)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1003)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3910)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3503)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2405)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2369)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2221)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:500)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:493)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:113)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:194)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)