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Bug 258808

Summary:	Starting Dev on JDK9 crashes with SecurityException:setContextClassLoader - InnocuousThread
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Martin Balin <mbalin>
Component:	Module System	Assignee:	Tomas Hurka <thurka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	JDK_9, VISUALVM
Priority:	P2
Version:	8.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Martin Balin 2016-04-13 12:33:13 UTC

Attempt to launch Dev on JDK9 EA build 113 throws following exception:

java.lang.SecurityException: setContextClassLoader
	at jdk.internal.misc.InnocuousThread.setContextClassLoader(java.base@9-ea/InnocuousThread.java:104)
	at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.updateContextClassLoaders(ModuleManager.java:476)
	at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.<init>(ModuleManager.java:169)
	at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.<init>(ModuleSystem.java:109)
	at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:169)
	at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:150)
	at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:307)
	at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:123)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(java.base@9-ea/Thread.java:804)

This should be fixed in Jigsaw/JDK9EA since b110 but it is not...

Comment 1 Tomas Hurka 2016-04-21 10:22:24 UTC

JDK bug workarounded by the following changeset:

changeset:   296166:60ccf11ee887
user:        Tomas Zezula <tzezula@netbeans.org>
date:        Thu Apr 14 15:48:23 2016 +0200
summary:     java.lang.SecurityException: setContextClassLoader

Comment 2 siva.kalagarla 2016-10-02 02:51:01 UTC

Hello,

I just downloaded 8.2RC and I see this exception happening in Mac.  May I know if there is a work around for this issue?

Regards,
Siva.