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(note that I'm in docs and had some assistance finding this - not sure this is completely right.) Installation of NB6 - installer looks in HOME/.nbi folder. When an empty registry.xml file found, NBI is unable to configure the installer and returns an error message pointing to the most recent entry in the HOME/.nbi/log directory. Workaround - rename the .nbi directory, or move it to another location and then relaunch the installer.
I`ve heard about the same issue (zero-sized registry.xml) from time to time on different platforms. So raising the priority to P1. Vary investigation is needed... bishop, Could you please describe the steps that resulted in such a behaviour? What builds (numbers and type - basic, standard, full) have you installed before getting such an exception? Did you use default installation components or unselected some of the components during installation? Have you uninstalled any of the previous installations? Could you please attach all (up to 3) previous logs (from ~/.nbi/log) together with the last one that contains the exception?
Could you please describe the steps that resulted in such a behaviour? What builds (numbers and type - basic, standard, full) have you installed All installations of NB6 have been full builds - they've included (but I don't think are limited to - I delete older installers periodically) netbeans-6.0-full-20070412-windows.exe and netbeans-6_0-daily-bin-200704261800.exe, at least two versions of M8. before getting such an exception? Did you use default installation components or unselected some of the components during installation? I used the default full installation whenever possible. Have you uninstalled any of the previous installations? Yes. All previous versions of NB6, but not of 551. 3 previous logs attached.
Created attachment 41986 [details] .nbi\log file
Created attachment 41988 [details] previous .nbi\log file
Created attachment 41989 [details] previous .nbi\log file
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I've added some improvements to both the registry serialization and loading. Even if an empty registry is discovered, it will be handled more properly.
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