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Bug 250540

Summary:	PermSize option used by default config prevents running on JDK 8/9
Product:	installer	Reporter:	vaxquis
Component:	Code	Assignee:	Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.0.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description vaxquis 2015-02-19 14:17:07 UTC

Installing NetBeans 8.0.1/8.0.2 on MacOS X 10.10 with JDK 8/9 installed results in having an immediate crash during app run startup due to:

Unrecognized VM option 'PermSize=32m'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.

PermGen is obviously unsupported on Java 8/9, and the PermSize switch has been removed from them (see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18339707/permgen-elimination-in-jdk-8 for more information), resulting in JVM startup error.

Removing the offending switch from netbeans.conf JVM switches makes the application running perfectly.

Comment 1 vaxquis 2015-02-19 14:33:29 UTC

BTW, by "netbeans.conf JVM switches" I obviously mean "netbeans_default_options" entry in conf.

Comment 2 Libor Fischmeistr 2015-03-10 07:38:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 243569 ***