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Remote VM may crash when tracing initialization of object of type Thread (or its subtype). See http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4517827.html for more details. The bug is probably caused by bug in JDK but it manifests only with some versions of NetBeans. It is reliably reproducible with NetBeans 3.2/3.2.1. I assigned it a low priority because it is hardly reproducible with NetBeans 3.3 (development version).
Bug of JDK => WONTFIX.