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NetBeans IDE 3.2 RC 2 hangs when starting up. It does not entirely hang. According to the Windows Task Manager it responds and it DOES respond to minimization, restore and resize. Also according to the Windows Task Manager it (runide) consumes "I/O other bytes" while "hanging". However the single window remains grey, dull and empty. My suspicion is that it has something to do with that I've chosen to run it in a single window with internal frames, rather than in separate windows. Possibly it has something to do with that I've mounted a VSS synchronized directory and that the VSS is set up to work with the database in our office, 56 kbps away. It worked nicely the first time after the installation and immediately after the VSS connection was set up. The first time I restarted it this problem appeared and I can't get out of it. For your information, I do have Forte 2.0 CE installed concurrently. If you want me to send a screen shot of the hanging window (a completely grey window with a proper window title row), please tell me. I'm very willing to assist you finding this problem and don't hesitate to mail me on gunnar.mjoberg@cinnober.com or call me on my cellular on +46 70 893 38 11. I'm not sure if the product category is workspaceswitcher. It has to to with the overall windows management and startup. Besides, I've installed JDK 1.3 on the same partition, (%SystemDrive%=D:) Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 1204 [details] grey window described in issue report 11645
The splash screen remains present. The last thing seen in it is "opening main window". The splash screen is hidden by the main window coming up. I can <alt>- <tab> back to the splash screen, but also this screen is hanging (completely white) and with a Java coffee cup icon seen from the <alt>-<tab> menu. Hopefully this sheds some light to the problem. Cheers, Gunnar Mjöberg
I reinstalled now but the problem remains. After reinstallation, it showed that it started the VSS scan ("LIST_SCAN_REDIR [or something like that] running"), indicating that there were remaining entries in the registry, possibly. Other interesting facts are that the installation procedure does not find the JDK on D:\jdk1.3\bin by itself (as it does for my colleagues) and that the installation procedure insists on installing on C:, while my SystemDrive environment variable points out D: Thanks for looking at this problem. If I finally get it working, I'll inform you. (The next step is to reinstall the JDK, in order to see if the NetBeans installation procedure automatically finds the JDK. Gunnar M.
Definitely not a 'workspaceswitcher' problem. I'm re-assigning to vcsgeneric, but feel free to assign to someone else if it's not yours.
Reported against 3.2.
It's hard to find out the problem from this description. Could you please attach a thread dump when the IDE is frozen ? (You get the thread dump by CTRL-BREAK in the console window.)
Since this issue was resolved by reinstallation of NetBeans, closing this as invalid. If this bug appears again reopen this issue and attach the thread dump.
No more response from submitter so I consider it as invalid too.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.