How do I prevent Eclipse from hanging on startup?

Question

I am using Eclipse 3.3 (\"Europa\"). Periodically, Eclipse takes an inordinately long time (perhaps forever) to start up. The only thing I can see in the Eclipse log is:

Answer 1

I just had problems with Eclipse starting up. It was fixed by deleting this file:

rm org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs

I found in .settings