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NB 5.5 is installed on linux. Fedora core 6, 2.4 GHz cpu, 1.5 GB or ram. So is Sun App Server 9.0. These were not installed together. When I attempted to attach the server to netbeans, it said no installation was available. I launched NB as root ("sudo netbeans") and it found the server and domain fine. I launched NB as a regular user, and got the following FileNotFoundException. The tool told me to file a report.
Created attachment 36108 [details] messages.log file
I cleared this up by uninstalling the previous NB and installing a new version. It looks to me like NB is supposed to install with the primary (only?) user as the owner of the installation. I had tried to install it in /usr/local, as root so that "everyone" (which happens to be only me anyway) could use the same IDE installation. Additional symptoms showed up in the logfile and in modal dialogs. Generally of the form "file such-and-such is read-only." A quick check showed they were not read only, but were owned by root and when running as richard (my normal behavior) they were no longer writable. Installing fresh, with the user as the owner, in the user's disk space, worked. Created a custom domain and connected to galssfish just fine that way too. Is there a place in documentation where it talks about how to do a single-executable install for multiple users on *-IX systems, or is it simply not recommended?
I am marking this as a dup of 93069... The changes for 93069 make the default choice on the "pick your platform installation directory" page of the wizard better in this situation... 'Create Personal Domain' becomes the suggested option in that case *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 93069 ***