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Double click on the icon, and when it get to the point where the message says 'loading pieces of the modules', an exception dialog pops up saying there had been a java.lang.reflect.Invocation.TargetException
Created attachment 14897 [details] ide log file
I see notions about ConfigDataLoader and server registry in stack traces => reassigning.
I think I found what caused this. Previously Netbeans 3.5.1 was installed, and had set up a '.netbeans' sub-directory in my 'Documents and Settings' directory. This was not deleted when I uninstalled it. I deleted the '.netbeans' directory, and re-installed 3.6. After this, the 3.6 installation started cleanly, and a tomcat error I was also having (when it was trying to deploy a webservices app) went away as well. You can change this to 'not a bug' if you want, but this seems like something that should be addressed.
another duplicate of 46184 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 46184 ***