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[3.6 rc1] IDE suddenly will not load. Also error handling of this situation isn't very good. Don't know why this is happening, but suddenly IDE will not load. On the startup splash screen it will stop loading on "Reading module storage.....Done". I get a dialog box titled "Unexpected exception". It has two buttons, left side says "OK", right side says "Show D...". Clicking Show D... does nothing at all. Clicking left side dismisses dialog box but does not shutdown the IDE splash screen. I have to use Windows Taskman to kill runide.exe. Sorry I don't have more info for you. Feel free to ask me to do stuff for you. If there is a way to start the IDE with a logger I can do that. I'm running Win2k with 1.4.2_04. (5 minutes later) ok, 3.6 beta is also broken, same behavior. Today I installed Tomcat 5.0.19 so maybe there is some kind of conflict.
Change to P5. Freeze was fixed. I was following instructions from java instructor to move all jar files from j2ee 1.4 to my j2sdk_1.4.2_04/jre/lib/ext directory to allow me to compile servlet code. In fact, only j2ee.jar and possibly j2ee_svc.jar are required. The other jar files were conflicting with netbeans. I found my ide.log files and noticed the usage of deprecated jar files. I won't close this bug because I did find a problem with how unexpected exceptions are handled during startup. Definitely the right side button text needs to be visible. And the button should do something when pressed. I changed the priority from P2 to P5 and changed bug title from "freeze on startup" to "error handling on startup".
Startup error handling is in core (hopefully).
fbattle, provide us more info - attach your ide.log file , please. Thanks in advance...
Created attachment 14232 [details] ide.log for nb 3.6 rc1
Easy to reproduce 1) download sun app server from j2ee website. 2) Move all jar files from C:\Sun\AppServer\lib to jre/lib/ext 3) startup NetBeans, will freeze on splash screen
> 2) Move all jar files from C:\Sun\AppServer\lib to jre/lib/ext don't do it. The jars in jre/lib/ext take precedence over the jars bundled with the IDE, we cannot do anything about it. jre/lib/ext is evil.
Sorry, but you missed the point of this bug. I acknowlege my actions are incorrect, but these incorrect actions produce a bug which netbeans pretends to handle. My actions create a dialog box with a button which you cannot read because the label is too long. Secondly, pressing the button does nothing. Please read my second comment for a description of how netbeans behaves.
okay okay :-) Changed the summary accordingly
*** Issue 63713 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Currently the button is visible, but the label size is too small and the userdir location is not displayed (see the screenshot attached to issue #63713). I don't consider this a P5, rather a P3. By not displaying the userdir location we are making things more difficult for dev builds users who want to report bugs. We should fix this bug if we are interested in the feedback. I won't raise the priority now, as it would affect the bug count for 5.0 (and it's not worth fixing for this version).
*** Issue 82820 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
There's another problem with this dialog. The text is now wrapped. It looks like this: AAAAAAAA AAA BBBBBBBB BBB CCCCCCC C when it should rewrap as necessary so it looks like AAAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBBB CCCCCCCC i.e. the line breaks should not be inserted manually in the dialog text.
*** Issue 93961 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
Seems fixed in NbPresenter is at some time. Closed as WFM. Reopen if the problem appears again.