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 had a similar problem after I updated eclipse on Mavericks. Eventually I found that in the eclipse plugins directory the com.google.gdt.eclipse.login jar had version numbers at the end. I removed the version number from the name and it all started fine :)