Eclipse freezes due to a deadlock in Buildship using Java 17

[nlisker]

Switching to any view or perspective in Eclipse which involves Buildship (package explorer, project explorer, gradle tasks, gradle execution...) results in Eclipse completely freezing. This happens when JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME and PATH point to Java 17. With 16 there is no issue.

The original report was submitted to Eclipse, including a log file: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=576086

Expected Behavior

Eclipse should not freeze.

Current Behavior

Eclipse freezes and has to be closed externally.

Context

Can't switch to Java 17 in the OS.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a Gradle project in Eclipse after setting the above to Java 17 and switch to package explorer, for example.

Your Environment

Win 10 Eclipse 4.21 Eclipse Buildship 3.1.5.v20210113-0929

[eeschiavo]

Same issue here