IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract! when trying to expand a project in Project Explorer view

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Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers (includes Incubating components)
Version: 2024-06 (4.32.0)
Build id: 20240606-1231

While trying to expand the project in the Project view , i am getting a popup notification for the error and the tree node won't expand to show any project files.

The following exception is registered in the workspace logs.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2024-11-02 00:52:39.465 !MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception !STACK 0 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract! at java.base/java.util.TimSort.mergeHi(TimSort.java:903) at java.base/java.util.TimSort.mergeAt(TimSort.java:520) at java.base/java.util.TimSort.mergeForceCollapse(TimSort.java:461) at java.base/java.util.TimSort.sort(TimSort.java:254) at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1234) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreePathViewerSorter.sort(TreePathViewerSorter.java:105) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.getSortedChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:687) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.createChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:866) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.createChildren(TreeViewer.java:611) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.createChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:819) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.handleTreeExpand(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1603) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.handleTreeExpand(TreeViewer.java:904) at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer$3.treeExpanded(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1615) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:149) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:91) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4285) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1160) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1184) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1169) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.wmNotifyChild(Tree.java:7715) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.wmNotify(Control.java:5778) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.wmNotify(Composite.java:1965) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.WM_NOTIFY(Control.java:5346) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(Control.java:4768) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5050) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.CallWindowProc(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.callWindowProc(Tree.java:1574) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.WM_LBUTTONDOWN(Tree.java:6616) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(Control.java:4748) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.windowProc(Tree.java:6148) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5050) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3671) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1151) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:339) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1042) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:152) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:639) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:339) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:546) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:173) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:152) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:208) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:143) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:109) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:439) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:271) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:580) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:668) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:605) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1481)