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If you are debugging a python file and enter help() at the prompt in the dubugger window the ide crashes. The message is: Invalid memory access of location 00000000 eip=005b6ac8 System Info: Product Version: nbPython M7 Java: 1.5.0_16; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_16-133 System: Mac OS X version 10.5.5 running on i386; MacRoman; en_US (nbpython)
This is a specific Mac JVM crash that should not happen in a java application(=> JVM bug) => Try to find a later patch to the mac 1.5 JVM or assign the problem as a Java Mac OSX JVM problem. (see the attached image bellow which shows a successfull help() command entered on a linux JRE 1.6 jvm
Created attachment 71313 [details] successfull help() on a linux JRE 1.6 JVM
successful w/ different jdk on mac. Determined problem is specific to 1.5.0_16; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_16-133 from Apple.