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Build: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200803130007) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 10.0-b19 OS: SunOS, 5.10, x86 User comments: STACKTRACE: (first 10 lines) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.editor.ext.ExtFormatter.settingsChange(ExtFormatter.java:136) at org.netbeans.editor.Settings.fireSettingsChange(Settings.java:865) at org.netbeans.editor.Settings.touchValue(Settings.java:694) at org.netbeans.modules.editor.options.BaseOptions$6.run(BaseOptions.java:1451) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:561) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:986)
Looks like a race condition.
BTW I'm not sure why this is reported as Solaris; I use Linux.
2 jglick: because originally it was reported as solaris (http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/detail.do?id=36139), your's is linux (http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/detail.do?id=40023) and you used browser for transfer it into IZ, didn't you ?
Makes sense.
Should be better now. http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/ac2cd4b6660d