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Created attachment 162356 [details] startup and plugin portal exception Fresh install of 8.2 without importing settings This is probably the relevant error: INFO [org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.services.UpdateUnitFactory]: Cannot read UpdateItem from UpdateProvider Plugin Portal[pluginportal-update-provider] to http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/8.2/catalog.xml.gz org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/8.2/catalog.xml.gz; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1239) Full log attached
This is already known issue. Thanks for your report Errnie. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 268322 ***