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

Removing *.snap (mine is *.markers), --clean-data or move workspace folder seems all did not work for me.

As my eclipse stopped working after I installed and switched my keyborad input to HIME, I went back to fctix and it worked.