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Bug 120931

Summary:	No feedback when Exception occurs on startup
Product:	platform	Reporter:	bmilcke <bmilcke>
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	issues@platform <issues>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker	CC:	dlipin
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description bmilcke 2007-11-02 09:52:30 UTC

This is not exactly an installer problem but a "startup"-problem (didn't find anything matching better.)

1. I installed Netbeans 5.5.1 on a Windows 2003 Server-machine as Administrator
2. logged in as normal user
3. Double-click on the Netbeans icon
=> nothinh happens (apart from about 3 seconds of an hourglass cursor)
=> %UserProfile%\.netbeans\5.5.1\var\log\messages.log does not contain anything enlightening

It took me some time to find out:
1. Start nb.exe instead of netbeans.exe in a shell -> you get an Exception message from Java
Reason was a .accessibility.properties file in %UserProfile% that requested an AccessBridge which was not available in
the JDK that I chose for usage together with netbeans.

Suggestion: Bring up some message box when startup fails, maybe with a hint to look into the messages.log file, and put
the exception message into the log-file.

Comment 1 dlipin 2007-11-02 10:02:10 UTC

reassigning to core where the netbeans launcher lives.