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Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.4 Beta (Build 201307092200) Operating System = Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0_40 Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 24.0-b56 On the Options/General page the proxy is set to "System proxy". When the IDE loads the News & Tutorials on the left side of the Welcome page says "Cannot connect to internet" while Blogs on the right side loads just fine. If I start-up my Fiddler2 web proxy (and restart the IDE) then the content loads fine.
Created attachment 140302 [details] News & Tutorials does not load
Created attachment 140303 [details] IDE log
News & tutorials section combines these two URLs: http://www.netbeans.org/news.xml & http://www.netbeans.org/mtmo.xml While the Blogs URL is http://planetnetbeans.org/rss20.xml Can you open those URLs when your web proxy isn't running?
Yes, I can open these three URLs just fine in Firefox. Thanks,
Tried it with NB 7.4 RC1: * On the Options/General page the proxy is set to "No Proxy" I get the same behaviour: The "Featured Demo" and "Blogs" load fine, while "News & Tutorials" does not with no messages in the ide log file. Can I have debug messages in the ide log?
(In reply to ophers from comment #5) > > Can I have debug messages in the ide log? There should be error messages in the log when a RSS fails to load. But there's isn't any in the log you attached.
There's something strange going on with NetBeans proxy selector. The welcome page feeds load even though I enter invalid proxy settings in Tools - Options. Reassigning.
I have this exact same problem, don't remember on what version it started, but it is still the same with 8.0.2. I'm on Linux (Fedora 21). These messages appear in the IDE log: SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Line number:1 SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Column number:1 SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Public ID:null SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: System ID:null SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Error message:Premature end of file. FINEST [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NbProxySelector]: NbProxySelector[Type: 2, Use HTTP for all protocols: true] returns [HTTP @ /81.91.3.8:80, DIRECT] for URI http://www.netbeans.org/mtmo.xml?unique=NB_EXTIDE_JAVA0e3da20aa-fe7c-419e-9c90-b993bef6b2ce FINEST [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NbProxySelector]: NbProxySelector[Type: 2, Use HTTP for all protocols: true] returns [HTTP @ /81.91.3.8:80, DIRECT] for URI https://netbeans.org/mtmo.xml?unique=NB_EXTIDE_JAVA0e3da20aa-fe7c-419e-9c90-b993bef6b2ce SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Line number:1 SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Column number:1 SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Public ID:null SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: System ID:null SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed]: Error message:Premature end of file. FINEST [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NbProxySelector]: NbProxySelector[Type: 2, Use HTTP for all protocols: true] returns [HTTP @ /81.91.3.8:80, DIRECT] for URI http://www.netbeans.org/mtmo.xml?unique=NB_EXTIDE_JAVA0e3da20aa-fe7c-419e-9c90-b993bef6b2ce FINEST [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NbProxySelector]: NbProxySelector[Type: 2, Use HTTP for all protocols: true] returns [HTTP @ /81.91.3.8:80, DIRECT] for URI https://netbeans.org/mtmo.xml?unique=NB_EXTIDE_JAVA0e3da20aa-fe7c-419e-9c90-b993bef6b2ce
I also have this problem and found a fix. But I do not know how the welcome.properties file got corrupted. This is a Netbeans I have been using daily. ${HOME}/.netbeans/8.0.2/var/log/messages.log was filling up with: SEVERE [org.netbeans.modules.welcome.content.RSSFeed] And the Start Page "What's New", "News and Tutorials" was always "...connecting..." (Blogs on right were okay). I tried Netbeans 7.4 and DID NOT have the problem. So I renamed "${HOME}/.netbeans/8.0.2" (I'll refer to this as TEST) and started Netbeans (made no modification) and DID NOT have the problem. I compared the files in my CURRENT .netbeans/8.0.2 and TEST and narrowed it down to: ${HOME}/.netbeans/8.0.2/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/welcome.properties I copied the TEST welcome.properties to my CURRENT. No more SEVERE messages to the Netbeans log and the "News and Tutorials" is working. The contents of the welcome.properties file: WORKING (from TEST): lastActiveTab=2 netbeans.org/mtmo.xmlunique\=NBJDK_EXTIDE_JAVA_JDK02ae1e1de-7429-4365-bd1a-b822d7c7ac23=Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:01:59 GMT netbeans.org/mtmo.xmlunique\=NBJDK_EXTIDE_JAVA_JDK0ea96b47e-9cea-4830-9bb7-00b007c3d478=Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:01:59 GMT planetnetbeans.org/rss20.xml=Wed, 06 May 2015 14:07:20 GMT startCounter=3 www.netbeans.org/demos.xml=Tue, 05 May 2015 15:32:01 GMT www.netbeans.org/news.xml=Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:17:35 GMT NOT WORKING (CURRENT): firstTimeClose=false lastActiveTab=2 netbeans.org/mtmo.xmlunique\=NBJDK_EXTIDE_JAVA_JDK02ae1e1de-7429-4365-bd1a-b822d7c7ac23=Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:01:59 GMT planetnetbeans.org/rss20.xml=Wed, 06 May 2015 14:07:20 GMT startCounter=3 www.netbeans.org/demos.xml=Tue, 05 May 2015 15:32:01 GMT Environment: Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.0.2 Patch 1 Java: 1.8.0_45; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.45-b02 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_45-b14 System: Linux version 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
REPEAT: To repeat (or create) this problem, stop Netbeans, remove the cache for Netbeans, and start Netbeans. The "content is loading..." message is displayed and Netbeans log is filled with the "SEVERE.." messages. rm ${HOME}/.cache/netbeans/8.0.2 I copy the TEST welcome.properties to the CURRENT welcome.properties, start Netbeans, and the problem is gone. GOTO REPEAT
From Bug 245808, this works too: wget -O ${HOME}/.cache/netbeans/8.0.2/welcome/netbeans.org/mtmo.xmlunique=NBJDK_EXTIDE_JAVA_JDK02ae1e1de-7429-4365-bd1a-b822d7c7ac23 \ https://netbeans.org/mtmo.xml?unique=NBJDK_EXTIDE_JAVA_JDK02ae1e1de-7429-4365-bd1a-b822d7c7ac23
http://netbeans.org/news.xml has errors and News & Tutorials has not worked in over week. Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.1 RC2 (Build 201510082301) Java: 1.8.0_60; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.60-b23 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60-b27 System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
*** Bug 256257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to MackSix from comment #12) > http://netbeans.org/news.xml has errors and News & Tutorials has not worked > in over week. > > > Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.1 RC2 (Build 201510082301) > Java: 1.8.0_60; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.60-b23 > Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60-b27 > System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb) In my case, it works fine now since the errors were fixed on the server side.
Just by deleting the file: $HOME/.netbeans/X.X.X/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/welcome.properties worked for me (Netbeans 8.1 Ubuntu 14.04 x64) Opening Netbeans after the deletion will generate a new welcome.properties file which is not corrupted.
Confirming that it works again after I delete welcome.properties. This is in 8.1 on Linux (Fedora 23) with java 1.8.0_66
Deleting welcome.properties did not work for me (NB8.1, JDK8, Windows 10)
Confirming that it works for me after deleting welcome.properties. This is in 8.1 on Windows10 with Java8
Maybe this bug has to do with importing the settings from previous Netbeans installation.