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I just pulled the latest code from the netbeans mercurial repository and the IDE no longer starts after recompiling. I tried removing the dev/ folder in my ~/.netbeans home directory. Afterwards, when I started netbeans an empty and unresponsive license agreement dialog showed up. The only reason I know it is a license agreement window is because of the window title visible, otherwise it is just an empty window.
that's strange. Could you provide more info? Sources from what repository, what is tip CS, have you clean&build, what is your jdk, OS, etc. Do you use Compiz?
I have tried recompiling 3 times, once by doing a clean first. hg tip yields the following: changeset: 106565:cfb6d6cc9e4a tag: tip parent: 106562:322d8320390b parent: 106564:f6a1fcd62456 user: Marian Petras <mpetras@netbeans.org> date: Thu Oct 23 18:40:08 2008 +0200 summary: Automated merge with http://hg.netbeans.org/main/ I do not know why the user says Marian Petras :). Does the above output answer the question of what repository the code came from? I compiled with jdk1.5.0_16, though my java runtime is from jdk1.6.0_04. I am running linux x86 Ubuntu 8.04. In the meantime I downloaded 6.5rc1 and it runs very well on my machine. Finally, I do not know what Compiz is, so I'm assuming I'm not using it. Let me know if there's any other information I could provide.
thank you for info. It didn't help to find the cause however we know that oyu work on latest trunk sources. The http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources recommends jdk1.5.0_14 for compilation, could you try to compile with this jdk? And try to update&clean your sources. Could you check messages.log in your <nb_User_dir>/var/log ? HTH
How frustrating! So the problem was that on October 23, Ubuntu pushed an update to g++, which in turn seemed to update dependent packages, including gjc. Whenver gjc is updated, it overwrites the sym links I have to point to gcj instead of jdk6. I normally recreate the sym links after after a gjc update, but did not expect anything with a g++ update. Once I recreated the sym links the IDE started just fine. It seems strange to me that 6.5rc1 ran fine under gcj while netbeans built from source would freeze enigmatically, but I really don't care whether netbeans works for gjc or not.